The keys to this process are myth, symbol and co-incidence. It’s a process that we may well need to help accelerate as the old Reality comes unglued.
Dream logic was David Lynch’s lifeblood. Although some reviewers have dismissed Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire as jumbled navel-gazing, there are very simple keys in these films that unlock the mysteries in ways that prove they are anything but.
Even before I discovered these clues I felt the films made perfect sense, even if I couldn’t quite nail it down. Knowing now what these films are about (or at least what many people interpret them as) doesn’t demystify them for me, it does the exact opposite.
Because beneath all the obvious symbolism and plot devices are embedded details that speak not only to Lynch’s longstanding obsessions but to deeper and far, far stranger connections that let you know that dreams aren’t just inside your head - they have the power to invade your external life as well.
