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I dreamed I was taking part in, or at least immersively experiencing, a new David Lynch movie.

The movie had no title that I could see, despite the poster actually appearing on the wall of a building in a scene of the movie itself. It had a three-sentence blurb at the bottom: three short sentences, taken from movie reviews or remarks made by the same person (possibly Lynch himself), but that I don't remember now, except that they each, in two or three words, described this as his ultimate movie-making accomplishment. The poster itself was a blurred blue image, seeming to me upon waking as being halfway between the Blue Velvet curtains and the Fire Walk With Me television static. A thin red banner across the top had yellow letters saying "DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS" or "A DAVID LYNCH FILM" or something like that.

The scenes that appeared in my dream had to do with a seedy crime enterprise with dirty money exchanging hands for dirty deeds, some of it possibly counterfeit. There was murder and mob violence, but, since this was also apparently a film at least initially made for prime-time television broadcast, the scenes were not bloody, even of someone getting his face beaten up. Then there was another scene where a building whose plate glass windows on the shopfront were bordered with shiny red laminate had that laminate all starting to melt and pour onto the sidewalk, the building itself sagging and collapsing. Then, a group of chaotic-neutral-sort-of characters, one of which a punk-dressed woman with David-Bowie-Labyrinth-style bottle-blonde hair, attempted an escape from a crime scene in a garishly painted bus or van, only to have the painted panels on the van start falling off as the bus rounded a curve.
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"Rabid fan" is a phrase I worry like a dog when I describe the love and obsession I exhibit towards Twin Peaks. But I realized today, driving in my car, running over thoughts with the Diane that is my own mind, that my own rabid fandom, even with all the work I put into it back in the POWER STAR zine days, does not account entirely for the strong link between me and this show and its story. There is a greater connection, and, slightly strangely, I did not fully acknowledge it until I thought about some events in the Limited Event Series that comprised Season 3.

It was Bradley, living in my dreams.

That misstates it, a little bit. Bradley's experience as depicted and described by him to Rodney, in Episode 11 of Season 3, meshes so closely with something that happened to me in particular, and the way I have experienced an eerie link between my dreams and waking life in general, that I am amazed not to have thought of this - instantly! - before now.

Basically, without giving away any spoilers, I had something akin to the "Dougie's box" moment when I was in high school. It hinted at where earlier general impressions of déjà vu had come from. It was a moment when events were playing out exactly as I had dreamed them earlier, but in such a way that I only gradually realized the correspondence, and even more gradually recognized what was happening. Touched by the devilish one? Who knows? I only otherwise have my limited interaction with friends and acquaintances to inform me how common such a thing is.

Details might not even be important to share here. This moment for me was not otherwise momentous, unlike the plot-turning Twin Peaks moment for both the Mitchum brothers and Dougie. In fact, all of my weird experiences like that had been random, seemingly unimportant in themselves.

But this is the missing piece (hey, that's a good idea for a Blu Ray collection) of how and why I feel such a strong connection with David Lynch and Mark Frost's story, and how, in this story, Twin Peaks, in particular, Lynch and Frost capture an interaction between dreams and waking life that seems so familiar, that resonates so strongly with me.

I am glad I realized it. And I beg your patience for my "rabid fandom" once again giving me something I had to tell you about a show I've gone on and on about so many times before.

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