When does thought begin?

Question

English speakers think in English.
Spanish speakers think in Spanish.
Bilingual speakers are able to to think in two languages.

What do we use to think before we acquire a language? Can we think, if we have not learned a language?

Ycats -- I wasn't referring to recall of trauma. This is different than thinking (remembering), although we can call recall (re-membering) a type of thinking.

However, to share the experience (and to relive it) their is the visualization combined with a linguistic aid to telling the story.

However, WHEN did you begin to think?

Answer 1

I still have memories from a very early age when I was processing information without using an inner monologue. I can remember spilling something on the floor and worrying about how angry my mother would be - the thoughts were visualizations of mom yelling rather than thinking " Oh crap, I'm going to get my butt spanked"

Answer 2

English speakers don't think in English, they only EXPRESS their thoughts in English. Thinking is a chemical-biological process, it has little to do with language.

Answer 3

What is all but symbols defined
within our clutching mind?
All we say or do
are but symbols we accrue.
We assemble them in orderly fashion.
Yielding only in our enterprising passion
to face a fact of startling negation
as our mind reels in madness
when we are beset with puzzling truths of vastness.
This confusion will but a moment stand
for we ignore that which we fail to understand
and blunder on to complete incomprehension.