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A lot of my thinking takes the form of internal monologue; talking to myself, or adressing an imaginary audience, or sometimes adressing an actual person who's involved in whatever I'm thinking about. (An interesting aspect is that I almost never imagine being talked back to.) Contrary to Alicorn's observation thinking-as-soliloquy seems pretty common here.
Some of my thinking feels like a smoldering fire, a background process that needs to be given time to run its course, to be tended and protected even though it's invisible, but will eventually break to the surface.
Like many others, my thinking is also internal discussions, whether with just one voice or multiple. The interesting thing to me is that while in my mind these 'discussions' feel complete and like regular conversation, when it comes to verbalise them I find quite often there's huge and often unjustifiable gaps and leaps in the thinking. If discussing a problem with a colleague, I'll often find that either the answer is obvious, or often that I need to take more time to come up with a coherent way of explaining it.
I don't do it often enough, but often I try to safeguard against this when coming to conclusions by forcing myself to say them aloud.