This is the best Twin Peaks vid analysis on youtube on this subject of dreams. I get frustrated how people just moved on from this show because they believe that its all just a dream in Laura Palmers head.

David Bowie's "we live insiadde a dreayumm" lives rent free in my head.

I've been dreaming about this video since forever. i mean jesus, i don't have friends whom I can talk about this so i defer to youtube for a very one sided conversation. but every time i vehemently disagree with every video i've seen about the topic, except yours' recommending this when the opportunity arrives

Your intros/outros are always fantastic, but when Sycamore Trees kicked in I swear to god I actually got chills

Really enjoying your videos. Its great that nearly two years on , someone is keeping the discussion alive , with very thought provoking content. Personally, I think the whole experience was designed to present several possibilities , but no definite answers . This is the brilliance of it , and why it frustrates so many, and why its one of my favorite things in the world.

would you say there is a connection between the Fireman saying "you are faraway" and Hawk's story about the dream soul travelling to "faraway places...the land of the dead"

Always end up speechless after watching your analyses

I don't subscribe to the theory of "It was just a dream" either, rather I believe that the 'dreaming' that is referenced throughout the show is like you said, what we want our world to be. I believe that towards the end of the show, Cooper has reached a stage of enlightenment - for lack of a better word - that he essentially, through his interactions with the lodges, 'dreams' r.e. changes the world of Twin Peaks into one in which Laura Palmer did not die. This, I think, is why we see the weird time/space anomalies in town because as the show progresses and gets ever closer to "the number of completion", reality is changing bit by bit to match what Cooper ends up doing by saving Laura Palmer. I also think that what ends up happening the moment Cooper saves Laura is that Judy, whisks Laura away into her world, a world of Judy's dreaming. If we look at both Major Garland's note and Hawk's map, we see two mountains, exactly alike, but on top of one is the dark symbol that we can safely assume represents Judy. That second mountain with Judy's symbol on top represents, I think, a Twin World of Judy's 'dreaming'. Once in this 'Twin World', we see that Laura was working at a place called "Judy's" and we also see a white horse on the mantle of Laura\Carrie's house indicating that this reality is of Judy's making. At the end of the show, when Laura remembers who she is, it destroys Judy's 'Twin World'. Whether this destroys Judy completely or simply her 'dream' is up to the imagination and whatever David Lynch and Mark Frost end up making out of it if they ever make a 4th season.

Man, I think it's like the 3rd time I'm watching this and when you deliver the "who isn't" line while the music kicks in I always get some serious goosebumps. Such a wonderful mini series you've created it for all of us lovers of the magical world of Twin Peaks. Artistically sound, aesthetically pleasing, humorous and masterfully delivered.

Poor Cooper...has yet to achieve his dream, and continues to live in it...even when others have moved on. What year is it? Thank you for the amazing commentary and analysis!

Thank you for the incredible work. I hope tou will achieve your own dreams

My interpretation of that the big reunion scene in Part 17 where the big Cooper face says "We Live Inside a Dream" is that it's Cooper refusing to believe it could be reality. Like, a world where he saves Diane, defeats his doppelganger, BOB is destroyed by a punch, everyone is together and happy, after spending 25 years in the Black Lodge he just can't wrap his mind around finally finding such a perfect ending. So even though the day is almost totally saved, he still goes forward by trying to change time and save Laura Palmer. Part 18 where he loses Diane/Linda, loses his identity, maybe gets the world destroyed depending on what the final scene means, it's all because of Cooper's paranoia causing him to reject reality

Cone Pone Flicks, you are EXCELLENT.

This is the most brilliant and well explained video about Twin Peaks. It makes the series make perfect sense, which is quite a feat! Maybe David Lynch is really a genius. Undoubtedly he is a dreamer!

"Who isn't?" Chills...

Great video in both thoughtful content and high production values. 👍

So happy to see another upload. Such a fantastic analysis. Thanks for brightening up my day!

I believe the sound loops 7 times in the white lodge scene. Not sure if that's important. I think the meeting between Cooper and the Fireman must be a sign of impending transcendence (for Cooper). Considering Frost's liking of Carl Jung, I believe the meeting might represent the encounter with the wise old man, which is one of the final steps of "individuation".

Well done. This jives with my worldview on Twin Peaks. I like how you explore this, nail down some key suspicions, but acknowledge the complexities with good principles that include all the right evocative vagaries. You handle the particular and the universal very well. I will be showing this video to all my Peaky friends now! This video is a masterful achievement.

the KEY is, In 1989 Laura and Agent Cooper saw each other in a dream, and the "Cooper" she and Cooper himself saw in the dream was Cooper 25 years older, Laura wrote the dream in the diary before her death, addressing Agent Cooper as "an older man" and there's one page missing from her diary. The younger Cooper addresses his dream with Diane in the recorder, so Diane was his diary. In 2017 season, Diane was hidden and replaced with a tulpa. 25 years later: Episode17: Older Cooper found teen Laura (with the help from Philip Jeffries and MIKE) in Twin Peaks to bring her home and she disappears screaming in thin air and then Cooper suddenly in the waiting room meeting older Laura. Episode18 (Final): Older Cooper found older Laura (Carrie Page) in Texas (with the help from the Fireman) to bring her home and she screams and then everything stops. Laura' s missing page should written : "2 :53 ...Time and time and time again" WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM -TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN. What Laura whispered to Cooper in 2017 season final was her MISSING PAGE, in where they would eventually meet each other outside the red room/waiting room, in some "alternate worlds". In disbelief Cooper then utters "WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM". So who is JUDY (the extreme negative force)? Laura IS Judy. LAURA IS THE ONE. This is why 2017 Bad Coop was after her, because BOB who is still with him wanted Laura's body & soul, according to Laura's secret diary. Whoever is after her will vanish. She uses nickname "Ms Judy" after Judy Garland for some reasons. The Fireman (electricity?) was protecting Judy. Did the Fireman turned Laura into Judy? The WHITE HORSE means someone you have in mind the most will become something in a different & more powerful form - "the Gumm (Judy Garland's old name/self) you liked is going to be back, in style." So halellujah come on get happy!

i always got the impression that diane and her doppelganger were plotting together. the look they gave each other came off to me as "let's rock"

Just discovered these. This is fantastic. Thank you so much.

It's important to focus on the wording. It's not that we "are" or "in" a dream. We *live* inside a dream. In light of Lynch's ideas about creativity, it seems important. "Who isn't?" - Bravo. Best answer ever.

This whole series of yours is just SO great, all of it; keep up the exemplary work!

Fabulous!!! Another great video, really enjoyed this.

Absolutely amazing videos, thanks for keeping Twin Peaks alive. You're extremely talented and I hope you achieve all that want to! 👍

FANTASTIC! Thank you for simply existing. And also very nice editing

Thank you so much for these videos! They are so beautiful, so interesting! It's like I've traveled back to the world of Twin Peaks by watching them. What a great experience you've made us have!

finishing a trip with all your twin peaks vids, so cozy

Fantastic production! And excellent analysis! Loving this video series -- thanks for sharing your talented insights.

Of all your videos, this is my favorite. It's spot ON.

Love your answers and questions

These videos are fantastic. You have a wonderfully unique analysis style.

Great job on the Twin Peaks vids, looking forward to the next one!

such on-point graphics and wonderful analyses every time !

I absolutely love these videos! Your analysis of Twin Peaks is, in my opinion, the best on KZfaq. The production value is fantastic, and the sense of humor is fresh. Love your coverage, thanks for the videos/making me wanna make videos someday too.

Really glad to find this channel, love your twin peaks content :) I always thought that Cooper and the Fireman scene from the start was placed right after Cooper loses Laura Palmer in the past, with the Fireman then playing the sounds so that Cooper can relate it with the fact that they have Laura with them now, and then proceeds to explain the next plan for Cooper. But as always, for me the fact that everyone has their own ideas is one of the things that makes this show great.

your Twin Peaks analysis are so good and inspiring. thank you for making those videos :) also good luck with your path to become a filmmaker. i would love to see your films

I belly laughed when the camera cut to Annie and woke my wife up.

Loving the channel - just finished all of Twin Peaks 3 seasons & movie in the past 2 weeks... Now off to watch Mulholland Drive before I finish this video. Outstanding work not only on your analysis, but also matching the production style of Twin Peaks. Cheers

Love this channel, nice work! Best twin peaks theory videos on KZfaq

Very nicely done; appreciate the different take from most other vids on the return; great choice with the ending song too

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant videos.

I legit cannot get enough of these 😍

I absolutely love your Twin Peaks videos and look forward to lots more of them!

Another great edit and critique. Along with Journey Through Twin Peaks this is the best stuff I've seen about Lynch on KZfaq.

I really hope at least some of the viewers of your Twin Peaks vids appreciate the amount of work you put into them. The editing is stellar, not to mention all the other technical things. Excellent work and excellent content.

I come back to these videos every so often as they’re just that good. I know this isn’t your main thing but you definitely have a gift for plugging into Lynch’s work and pulling out what makes them tick, or maybe just hum with the sound of bad electricity. Very nice work.

you are so talented the way you put yourself in that scene at the beginning!! really amazing!!👏👏👏

Best Twin Peaks content on KZfaq, hands down. I’m impressed.

Grossly under subbed! As a longtime viewer and fan of TP and it’s lore and mysteries I must say I absolutely LOVE your analysis and the production you put into each and every video! You really take the time and effort to succinctly answer and explain the reason you’ve come to your conclusions. This makes it extremely intriguing and very insightful for us as fans being walked through your explanation of each topic. You’ve definitely earned my sub! Keep up the great work, it’s truly brilliant!!

your twin peaks vids are so good bc you give them the same uneasy vibes, in addition to the brilliant analysis.

Holy shit do I love the production on these videos. Man, this is so cool. I love the "Cozy" atmosphere you are giving, as just a guy narrating his thoughts, because everything else about the video is so well made that it doesn't distract you (The sketches, the show insertion etc).

Love your videos, top notch work. Please keep going. I had a comment that turned into another Twin Peaks rant, so I will just say this about my current TP state: Cooper's dream of escaping the lodge as Good Coop and Laura's dream of being saved by Cooper is a shared dreamspace/reality/whatever/S3. Black lodge beings have subverted Cooper's '2 birds with one stone plan' to get Cooper/time trapped in a loop to extract as much suffering as possible to feed on. Can Cooper ever escape the chair? I don't think so, his soul was annihilated. Running into himself in the waiting room and looping time-travel is causing brain-melt, and Cooper is well on his way to a Philip Jeffries-like existence. Unless there is a S4, and I don't expect one, Cooper is stuck in this loop of S3 in perpetuity, failing every time we watch it, his story never advancing. That is the horrified look on his face from the Laura whisper, he's trapped in his own hell. It feels like an ending. And also a perfect example of art with the mission of introspection and meditation for the viewer. I can't help but to always think: Deep down, all we want to know is what this means to Lynch, but we will never find out. Much like the whisper. Crap, I think I ranted again.

Yeah, that existentialist interpretation is pretty much exactly the conclusion I came to about the "dream" stuff when S3 came out. I even came across the "spider" quote while researching and after watching Inland Empire, but I don't remember seeing actual footage of Lynch saying it until your video. Thanks for doing such a good job.

This is the most concise, confident interpretation of Lynch's work Ive come across in a long time. Not that I'm in the habit of trolling for Lynch analyses but I must say, you're very good, in my limited and humble opinion...new sub! You're cheeky too, in a non-annoying way🙏🙏🙌🙌✌✌

Hey, Matt -- great stuff. Thank you!

You are amazing. Fantástic!!! All your videos are greats

I can't get enough of this!

I love the style of your videos, cutting the actual things happening instead of just watching you commentate. Please keep making more cuz these videos are exactly what I want to see when I look up Twin Peaks theories!

Great vid and analysis. Thank you!

I watched the second half of this video for the second time just now. I don’t think there need to be definitive “answers“, but for this dream bit, I think your explanation is it. From a meditation perspective, which we know Lynch is coming from, no mystery about that, it makes so much sense. And furthermore, in a lot of his movies, certainly Lost Highway,, Mulholland Drive and inland empire, the alternate versions of the story/characters aren’t created by dreams as in sleep dream, but something a lot more general. So yeah who isn’t the dreamer? So it’s exciting, because we are part of twin peaks, the whole thing. Thanks for your content. Will watch your new video hopefully tomorrow.

Best damned youtuber on the interwebs. Somebody give this man some awards. Brilliant content. Bravo Sir!

This was really dope Matt, well done. For me a dream is an infinite question, something David Lynch opened up in me with his films and hopefully someday ill get to thank him for that.

Yeah, I'd say Coop being caught in a messed up Lynch-ian time loop is a lot better than the age old "it was all a dream" gag. Perhaps Laura is whispering into Cooper's ear about who killed her... as well as the fact that he's caught in a time loop but never remembers it every time it starts over again. I'll just guess that the time-loop is how Judy is keeping Cooper from stopping it. Oh and the white horse appears in the form of a small figurine on Carey Page's mantle, not that I could tell you what that means. Probably a coincidence - but after Laura tells Cooper that she'll see him again in 25 years she makes this gesture with her arms which is very similar to something Audrey does with her arms while dancing at the Roadhouse.

Love this!!!

dude... phenomenal!

Love your videos!!

Wow. Just found your channel and holy crap man great analysis and great production on the video. 👍

I am pretty uptight and judgmental when it comes to Twin Peaks analysis videos, AND I ENJOYED YOURS A LOT!! Consider yourself complimented.

Where the hell you have been hiding for the last two years 😀 Brilliant and stunning content that you have been delivering through these twin peaks videos! Most detailed, analytical analysis of whole TP (S1-3, FWWM, books). I thought almost e erything has already been said but I obviously made mistake! Keep up the good work!

Fantastic! Please, keep em comin.

Great video and detective work!

I must say, you make a DAMN FINE Twin Peaks Analysis Video, Corn Pone Flicks! I've watched a lot of great Twin Peaks Analysis Videos, from different channels such as: Take The Ring, Obnoxious & Anonymous, Jay Dyer, Wow Lynch Wow & many others. But I just stumbled across your channel, a couple weeks ago, and you by far, have the best theories, and the best Production quality & Editing skills, I've ever seen, on any Twin Peaks Fan Videos. I dunno how you do it. You make it look like you've got a Million Dollar Budget, the way you place yourself in different Twin Peaks settings, such as the Black Lodge, White Lodge, The Dutchmen's, etc. Very impressive. Keep up these amazing Twin Peaks Videos. You've got yourself a new subscriber.

Omgggg your videos are incredible

I have now watched all four of your Twin Peaks videos. I feel like I have a better understanding of the last season. Now I have to watch it again!

2019 was the year of CornPone. I wish you had the inspiration to upload as often as you did then, with so many great uploads

The more I watch this video the more I go down the rabbit hole. Those last 2 episodes were like when you have sleep paralysis. Carrie's scream at the end wakes you up. And then you think jesus that was some wierd shit going on right there what happened? Then the more you think about it the more you want to know a different take on it. Ultimately I think that is where coop is. Trying to decipher and fix Laura time and time again in different dreams and different timelines. Wherever his impure soul takes him. Lynch is a genius.

Love your analysis keep it going. The Leftovers has potencial for future videos

Someone on Reddit recommended your channel, I’m really enjoying this series!

Love this essays, please continue. Can I suggest next an analysis of the show "The Leftovers"? even if it's not from the 90s?

Nice vid!! Really remind me of the zizek movie analysis 🤔thanks a lot💖

Your greenscreen effects are flawless. Well done.

Your videos are so damn well made.

Good review and effects bro

Dreams...are my reality....you can sing it to that melody😍🥊

Man, this is fantastic. Keep this up, and the audience will absolutely build!

This overview is crucial to understanding the overall picture!

I used to watch Dallas with my grandma, as a child 😃

Hey man I love your vids..can you please do more twin peaks vids they are the best on you tube

Mulholland drive analysis! Bonus!

Hey, very nice analysis, to which I mostly agree - especially the no way "it was all a dream" part. However, for the final episode I have a different theory, which sort of adds up - when Coop wakes up in the morning, in a different hotel, he does not go to ANY parallel universe - he enters the real world (thus "waking up" from the "dream" that movies and shows are. And yes, WE are the dreamers, watching them, while the characters "live inside a dream". The gas stations, Judy's, the brands, Odessa, everything is real world - including Alice Tremond, who is played by the actual real life owner of the Palmer house. The RR is there just like in the real world, no longer the show Norma's RR - and the ONLY thing I did not manage to gel at first, but eventually hit me, is the Twin Peaks sign - well yeah, because that is also there in the real world, like a memento, except there is no Twin Peaks - it's like the Hobbiton in NZ, it exists, but it's not like hobbits actually live there :) Again, great comment and analysis.

Superb!

A big clue about Cooper's scene order, IMO, is when he is and ISN'T wearing his FBI pin. Another thing that's interesting to think about it how this theory of repeating cycles and other timelines parallels with Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I have no way of knowing if Lynch read those books, but they are almost the same age and grew up with blue collar backgrounds, Cold War hysteria, a fascination with how rock music and television changed the world and both Twin Peaks and The Dark Tower constantly reflect on how "the world has moved on."

For all his ‘weirdness’ Lynch tends to be interested in Reality, and how the mind creates delusions to escape it. The delusions are as bizarre as human imagination can dream, but they orbit that which is True. I suspect Lynch is dealing with the same notions in S3, while Mark Frost engages his obsessions with folklore. The two forming the ‘Twin Peaks’ between which the show dances like clouds and never quite settles. It’s interesting that Cooper seems more ‘integrated’ with his various selves in the final episode, perhaps a step closer to the ‘dreamer’ Cooper face superimposed on events in ep17. The ultimate dreamer, though, must surely be the ‘I’ that resides in all of us.

I love it

By this point the analysis of Twin Peaks' third season is reaching a mature level. Bocko brought it there for the first two seasons. David Auerbach had the most coherent and believable analysis in the aftermath of the Showtime season 3 release. But you sir, are taking the discussion to another level. My mind is blown considering the idea the Cooper is trapped in a cycle

Wow CPF Wow! This is *great*. How did I not know about your series until today? I just read about you on a Reddit thread (great review--the kicker was that they said you were, unusually for the Twin Peaks YT community, "not smug"), and I pretty much dropped my phone and opened up my laptop to check out your channel. I'm glad I chose the browser, because your videos look great--and I really love your commentary, too. I'm 100% with you when you suggest that Coop is likely doomed to a(n) (eternal) return in his imperfect quest to save Laura . . . because I don't see Cooper ever giving up, especially in a universe where time travel is possible.

I always forget about the Cowboy. Appearing with that electric sizzle. Interesting how he has material control, through actually giving orders, but also appears aetherially, like in the 'wake up' scene. The Man behind Winkies also is shown in an 'over arching' controlling sense, when holding the box. Who are these ever present, fourth wall breaking agents?

This episode made me cry....