Over time, the way we used our tongues to communicate led to a reprogramming of the way we actually thought, and now its hard to say that we still “think in pictures”. It appears to most that we sometimes think in pictures, but soon our minds gravitate back to thinking in words, which is the mainstay, especially when reading! Still, the words we are reading are living descendants of those original pictures that we thought in before we could speak . Our first words were simply descriptions of those images. In our first alphabets, we used actually images to form letters and scripts; hieroglyphics are actual images and Sumerian cuneiform is based on images. Once you understand the logic that generates much of the English language, one can decipher what those first images were by listening carefully to words, categorizing them into families and deciphering their roots.
Its also essential to understand that we thought in pictures much like animals before we spoke and we had been doing this “picture thinking” for 2 million years. Further, we inherited this method of thinking from our simean past, going back much further in time. One can not expect that the infrastructure to think in pictures has just vanished from the human brain. It has not. And we still consciously rely on it from time to time. It may even be that our words are just bridges to those images, and that we still think in pictures, but subconsciously. 
THE ENGLISH CODE 