There is a little part of me that knows precisely what it is talking about and can describe everything in vivid detail.
The problem is that part of me is not in the logical cognitive mind. Nor is it even entirely in the reactive and affective mind. It’s somewhere else or possibly, it’s everywhere and the main source of all chaos is trying to access it.
What can be very helpful is observing people that have already accessed that part of themselves to enough of a degree that they can express it through some form of art.
Two such persons are David Lynch and Mark Frost with their creation of the twin peaks series.
At a certain point of creating a vision, whether that’s in art or just creating your own unique way of life, other people’s opinions become extremely unimportant.
But that doesn’t happen until there is some degree of success.
Because people are helpful. They are a broad view of a complex problem. Their unique insights and abilities to see the things an individual cannot are what shape solutions.
So to say one shouldn’t care what people think has always been idiotic to me. We care what people think because what people think actually matters.
But how it matters is the issues. Because ego is meant to serve clarity yet often ego will obscure clarity or even entity hide it.
And if not careful success will feed ego to that point where it stops serving clarity.
Writing about my theories on what happened in twin peaks is a writing exercise in finding real thoughts and expressing them in ways that can be understood by another person.
It is a very frustrating exercise that takes a lot of time and might not even generate any interest for anyone. But writing exercises are not about generating interest.
They are about finding some clarity between the confusing chaos of the internal drives that produce projections and motivations colliding the external reality that we have no power over.
Do you know where dreams come from?
That’s what Agent Cooper asks Lucy and the Sheriff in episode four of twin peaks.
He then explains that dreams come from acetylcholine neurons firing high voltage impulses into the forebrain. And those impulses become pictures. The pictures become dreams, but no one knows why we choose these particular pictures.
The first time seeing this it just seems like Cooper being Cooper. His nerdy knowledge and excitement about it is a quirk of his character and comes off rather adorable and makes him even more appealing.
But after seeing the entire series it becomes clear that Cooper isn’t around just to be likable. He also gives a lot of information. He’s as useful as he is likable.
High voltage and electricity are themes throughout the entire show.
And I have to comment on the skill of Lynch and Frost in seamlessly providing information in the form of entertainment or just the quirk of a character.
I’m going to take a little pause here and continue my analysis of twin peaks in the next blog.
I’ve reached a point where I’m extraordinarily low on time. Mainly because most of my allotted writing time needs to go to writing short fiction for submission if I ever hope to publish anything.
So I will keep these blog short and simple and quick above all else.
I just want to add what I love so much about twin peaks.
I’ve struggled with writing fiction all my life. Since I was a kid.
I’ve never been able to finish anything. Because I don’t have the structure in me that seems to finish most people’s novels or films or what have you.
Twin peaks shows an entirely different structure that is very unique to itself.
And it has made me realize that a structure can be unique to itself. Just knowing that made things make more sense to me. And I now believe I’ll be able to finish a work of fiction.
I guess we’ll see. But I think I’ve got it thanks to twin peaks.
Jess lanai 