I’ve noticed recently that I have a lot of dreams where I’m simply thinking things in my head…for instance last night I was dreaming that I was smoking a joint with a friend, nothing out of the ordinary…and while I was doing this I was simply thinking of different things in my “head”… does this happen to anyone else? how common is that? I was just curious…
Yes, I too think in my dreams. I remember clearly thinking just a few days ago in my most recent LD that something was amiss. My friends and I were discussing our class schedules for the next year while walking around an imaginary high school campus when I realized that it couldn’t be time for school just yet.
I don’t remember having brainstorms or anything of that sort, though.
I occasionally have thoughts, but it’s never quite like real life.
Sometimes things just happen, and other times I comment on them internally (non-lucid, I mean).
Like, in an ND that I had last night, I found my pool key (which I have lost IRL) and was relieved about it…I believe I thought something like “That’s good.”
But I don’t get LD’s yet, so no conscious thoughts for me.
I think I draw a distinction between internal scattered thoughts, like “that’s good” and a longer thought process… for instance in my dream last night my friend and I were just passing the joint back and forth, not talking to each other, but in my head I was “talking” to myself for about five minutes or so. I’m not sure if that makes any sense…
that’s not really relevant to what I’m talking about here…did you maybe post a wrong link? 
Ah, pardon me, sometimes I forget to copy the links I’ve highlighted, and I’m left with an old one 
but I’ve edited it. 