Home movies of the mind

In what I otherwise found to be a slog through this week's dense reading, this question leapt out at me: "What are those contextualized representations - those home movies of the mind that we all play as we interpret a problem?" (p. 6). I think because I am currently so interested in visual representation and issues of visual rhetoric, the idea of "home movies of the mind" was particularly intriguing to me. Home movies aren't scripted, and often not particularly coherent, but they have such rich "narrative fragments" that they can be a source of a deep understanding. When we seek to understand the other, to engage in argument (in the positive sense of the word), how often do we seek a rational, linear set of "explanations" for the positions they take, the choices they make, etc.? What if, instead, we sought to get a glimpse of the home movies of their mind? I know, for me, as someone who does not tend to think in a linear fashion and has an even harder time articulating a set of logical data and warrants when asked, the idea of somehow, in a holistic way, sharing the home movies of my mind sounds like a much more invitational and promising venture.