Is it like words sounding in your head or something? I would say it's close to that, except there isn't the feeling of a sound. It's more as if language were a

Is it like words sounding in your head or something? I would say it's close to that, except there isn't the feeling of a sound. It's more as if language were a muscle and you were exercising it silently, producing words. Not that all thoughts come in complete sentences or even with words, but some mental processes definitely involve language. I'd be surprised if you didn't have this as well. Hard to say, of course. But you may catch yourself "thinking in words" someday and then realize you do it all the time. Random tangential statement: I predict that Sapir-Whorf will come back into fashion and be thoroughly rehabilitated.