This is the perfect way of putting it because it will be different for everyone.
Some (like you) feel their thoughts. Sometimes, these are vague ideas or impulses, while sometimes, they form actual words.
For me, I get driven by their interests and desires. I want to do their sports, I want to paint (I’m not at all artistic).
I suspect there are plenty of twin flames that are never even aware of any kind of telephatic connection while it all happens in the background.
And there are people who just have it constantly, it can be distracting: