How do you think then? I have two modes: 1. Conscious thinking with words, when I am actively trying to think about something, when I'm trying to solve a problem. 2. And unconscious thinking where I don't actively think about the problem and do something else, but after a while I come to some conclusion.

But when I am trying to actively think of something I know no other way than to think in words. I am not a visual thinker (I'm kind of aphantasic, when you ask me to think about a horse, only an idea pops up in my head without any specific image and I have to try really hard and describe the horse with words to make some kind of misty parts of the horse).