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In honor of the surrealist director David Lynch, who sadly passed on January 15th, 2025, here reads every dream note I could find up to the present either featuring Lynch or his movies, settings, or characters. Surprisingly I never suffered nightmares, only some high stress imaginary situations, from his at-times scary nightmares of film.

As most were written at various points during the night, some typos are now incomprehensible to me, and I made some annotations, omitted unrelated segments before and after the dreams, and replaced some names for privacy. Inevitably much is incoherent.

These all involve and mention settings or characters from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks (the original show, the movie Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks Returns), and Mulholland Drive. Inland Empire is mentioned but I’ve never seen it, in case you’re afraid of permutated muddled niche spoilers.


9/13/22 green grassy suburbs in color supposed to be outside scary eraserhead setting I was like no way not possible. [dreamed after watching Eraserhead and my first David Lynch film]


12/21/22 dramatic thanksgiving affair murder mayhem [my cousin] murdered cousin on her dads side some guy in a closet started singing blue velvet and I thought he was gonna come out and shoot me but did not


10/16 or 17/22 David Lynch book gorgeous colored pictures some outlines


12/12/23 group of directors excitedly talking holding each other’s arms grinning woman 1970s outfit

Walking down the sidewalk with group and someone phased David Lynch through the sidewalk. The group kept going said something about the struggle. The blonde Laura Dern in black v neck and maybe skirt and then duplicate from other timeline in kissy [unknown typo] of bad plot ran up got out of black limo like mulholland drive then another limo also pulled out multiple timelines


6/1/23 Trying to get to a summer BotB [Battle of the Bands] failed to film other bands properly in China, rice dumped on ground wanted to save it. Got involved in a stickup with a knife he said give me your money give me your bag but I didn’t have either only change and food but he didn’t respond to the food. I look out the window and a young boy is carrying a black sign advertising Blue Velvet 2, the 2 written on a piece of paper taped to the sign with Jeffery’s face in black and white on it I use is as a distraction while i pretended to get out change and pepper sprayed him


6/29/23 Restaurant owned by Josie from twin peaks waitress told her to do laundry after she seated us she refused ibaulted[*unknown typo]


6/24/23 Cooper in white tank and underwear boxers Talking going about [to] room, Audrey sitting on bed over covers fully dressed green sweater plaid skirt listening looking at him with a smile [dreamt after that Twin Peaks episode where they had an opportunity to almost maybe get together]


6/27/23 Johnny rotten [of Sex Pistols] in 1875 follow him around gimpy[unknown typo] toy memorial for cousin who was going home

Red head at the place given a female symbol pie thing very tasty with pankackenoj [pancake on] side Audrey showed up also investigating


6/5/23 Shelly reading fine bound thick blue velvet book diff plot cuz dr Bodega or sumthing a character afraid Leo would kill her if he learned she was reading it


7/9/23 “lobotomy oh lobotomy” sung by a group sitting at tables in twin peaks like restaurant cabin to the tune of oh Christmas tree.


7/11/23 choosing clues to take from sheriff department

Laura Palmer comes out of car movie hung having hidden the whole time living on prom snacks about

McDonald’s asked for pastry then pie then lame water


8/8/23 Hunter s Thompson [the author, who I may have been at some points of the dream] throws Leo in closet and tied door with helmet belt and cot [coat?] sleeves

Saves Shelley and Audrey who were then kidnapped. Pass through an adjacent door while smoking a metal propeller which tastes pretty bad thinking, truth is stranger than fiction.

Stops in on marine gym looking for a contact who wears a green beret deciding what soldier that would be.  I think the propeller is from a plane having a plane cartoon on one corner. the commander barking about people not exercising implying me. Mentions marching band therapy a few on treadmills presumably for hours as I pick a push-up pull up thing, only one I know how to use. Give it two goes

Asks what has Thompson done I start to speak when thru the window I see Leo walking behind scared Audrey and Shelley and blurt I locked that guy in the closet! I saved those women and untied them! I run through the doors but Leo escaped, leaving the women with photographs of sunflowers in a gift shop. The pictures vanish I order them sent to the sheriff by the counter who has been sketching them and studying them for clues which I knew having seen later episodes are useless clues meant to throw off the investigation


Josie doecial furng batt bettsRabia’s [unknown gibberish] man…. Her gun barrel was reversible no handle so when a Walter White type with a mustache had grabbed her she pressed gun from inside his tan cardigan so it looked like he was aiming the gun at her (Josies business boss looking on) so she doesn’t look like she’s working with him then shoots him from inside since barrel on both sides.

Some kinda ship on the grey water. Josie does somehow and it made enough sense.


8/22/23 aliens gpv showed up took anyone that claimed to see them or intended to meet orhbsomeone who believed them twin peaks flashback to Laura waiting for call on red heart shaped bed, reddish room. Agent cooper enters hangs by doorway hand in pocket high camera angle Laura goes missing


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Eraser head movie review called it a few things “…and a touch of nihilism.”


9/22/23 twin peaks returns related


10/5:24 witness to murder so booted on motorbike and zoomed away

Came to trailer park Leo and Leland  triplates escaped went to raised cabin thing apparently looking like girl who had gone missing


12/16/23 mulholland drive Diane was a huge spider then Diane again and when some dude said something Camilla popped sitting straight up wearing a green bra and underwear with a box on her head


12/19/23 Donna reading Laura’s diary when Laura Palmer appeared sitting in a chair at a little table wearing a black bra black long skirt and black panty hose and heels 

I tried to remember what she said but it was hard. “I get it now” she said somehow referencing her and donnas’ skirt

Washington bullets [a song by The Clash] started playing but I thought no it’s 1978 this song doesn’t exist yet thinking of my story [which I was then writing, set in 1978] so the music stops Laura says more things then she’s a black woman instead of white for at least a short time still incomprehensible “Washington Bullets” resumes

White and teal narrow airplane flying by outside kitchen window said Inland Empire then in dirt the wheels looked bent back on the line attaching them to the plane


12/23/23 Lynch movie Kyle Maclachlan some evil dude blue velvet novel version back cover had moving images and scenes


12/28/23 film class David Lynch chillin would swoop between tables closer for one on one in back of classroom like a camera angle teleport ish holding red phone glow in the dark and black suit with Sandinista [The Clash album, playing] its lines swelling between then begin looking


3/21/24 [UIC Radio alumni Cloudy] talking lynch movie three versions weird Jennifer Lawrence in it super short version

Scary Laura Palmer segments her bestie Victoria [my high school friend] at first went through scary rooms asked would she betray friendship to get out of supposed same curse she had being in scary rooms as painful nightmares


3/22/24 twin peaks dread dark area Grey tones


10/12/24 Pillow printed with Laura Palmer with arms around dale cooper and Beck why idk


1/18/24 Real life: Two young men passing me on sidewalk in Pilsen at night: “Inland Empire is—" He paused and my head jerked up in attention. “Southern California—" and the rest was lost in the wind.


1/20/24 something 10 by 10 two walls or rectangles distance apart and a man standing between them maybe Don Draper [from the tv show Madmen] maybe vague impressions of David Lynch maybe [I was thinking of David Lynch in the morning on his would-be 79th birthday so it may have tainted my dream recollection.]


1/1/25 Hangin out with David Lynch at home in his kitchen, thinking that he was a nice guy to get along with. He showed me some side room off the kitchen with light walls and crowded with dark mahogany shelves/bookcases with a built in grandfather clock talking about how he needed to clean up and stop using the room for storage, including some collection of pink and teal crisscross rubber covered glass water bottles bequeathed to him by an old business partner who died before ever collecting the cardboard box of bottles for his own business. Lynch was shorter than expected and kind of hunched and curmudgeonly. He asked me to clean his kitchen, instructing me to clean the counters and the backwash tiles of the plain white and greyish kitchen with some black back tiling in places. His attention was called outside for some reason. When I stepped into the daylight of the green sunny front yard which sloped down steeply to the street on a round hill with a black metal fence at the bottom, narrow apartment buildings lining the other side of the street, he had vanished. [Now that I reflect at the end of the day, it reminds me of the house from Lost Highway, if you stepped outside the front door.] A blueish sedan went by from the west and some man behind me from inside wondered or wanted to know where he was, but I looked around and there wasn’t any direction he could have gone so fast. It’s just like a David Lynch film, I thought, unphased, but not expecting him, in disappointment, to reappear.

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