Kinda similar to this, I sometimes wonder if objects have consciousnesses that are unknowable because they can't express them. I've even wondered if all individual cells in the body have some capacity to think, but almost none of them had any capacity to express in ways we'd know or accept...
I don't really think that inanimate objects have feelings, but when I was younger I used to look at dead leaves in the wind and think they really, really looked like animals running or flitting in circles.