Is it normal to think in images and other ways rather than words?

As far as what I glean from people describing thoughts and its processes from their perspective, it always sounds like an internal monologue or conversation.

I usually think...other?If I explore a memory,idea,or concept, I see it rather than hear it in my head-more simulation rather than linear or a matrix of progression.

Also, there is this thing...
a thought that's not a thought. Sometimes entire thought processes or thing they produce seem to spring forward through feeling. I don't mean emotion, I mean feeling my brains energy (for instance tracing the amygdala to show where i felt anger in explaation to my counselor, and I'm nor sure if that's the right term, only that I was told I traced the perfect shape of whatever its called). Further, it feels like rapid simultaneous thought, but without any placeholder in conceptualization, no words or images. Like awareness of the Subconscious without the conscious mind bothering to categorize or fully react to it.

I really need insight on this, where I'm from, South Carolina, I was told this is a delusion or sign of psychosis, here in California, I'm told I'm a genius. The extreme contradiction is extremely stressful, as I don't know whether to heighten or lower my ambitions and expectations, esp since I have a family history of mental illness