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This thread is here so that I can add my theory to the pot and hear how other’s might expand on it. Sometimes stories end and we’re happy with the conclusion, other times we hate how the story is finalized. The wonderful thing about interpretive art is that it has the ability to give each person their own personal and satisfying ending. Maybe you have not found that ending yet, but hopefully in time you can find an ending that will offer you some satisfaction. For me I have finally found peace in the following:

“Laura is the one.” Why? Because she is the one that can stop the mother/experiment/Judy. As Cooper is bringing Laura to the white lodge, in 1989, we hear the “record skip” right before Laura disappears. IMO this is to remind us of what the Fireman says to Cooper in the opening scene of episode 1, “Listen to this sound… it is in our house now.” The Fireman knows something has infiltrated the white lodge and it is a threat. This knowledge helps me understand the Naido scenario which I have struggled with. Always seem to me that the safest place for Naido was in the lodge where there are supernatural entities with god like powers and not the Twin Peaks sheriff dept. However, if there was a threat present in the lodge then Fireman needed to get Naido out and not let Laura in. So the Fireman pulled Laura from our reality and relocated her to an alternate reality in Odessa, TX. Remember “The little girl who lived at the end of the lane?” For those not familiar with this movie, it is a story about a girl whose parents were divorced. Her father was ill and dying and her mother was abusive. Fearing that her abusive mother would gain custody after his death, the father relocated his daughter to an undisclosed location to hide her. I believe this is the clue that tells us that the Fireman relocated Laura to hide her from the mother/experiment/Judy. Then he gives Cooper the coded information that will help him find Laura in the new reality.

There is no way Laura could complete her destiny because she has been dead since the beginning of this story. Now, in her new reality, she does not even know who she is. It is Cooper’s mission to find her, wake her up, and help her realize her destiny. Cooper and Diane enter this alternate reality for this sole purpose. When they cross into the new reality they are crossing into a reality where versions of themselves already exist, those versions being Richard and Linda. It seems that the memories and persona of Richard are slowly merging, and replacing, the memories and persona of Cooper. Eventually, he will become Richard and possibly even forget why he is there to begin with. Which has left me asking myself if this has happened before. We have seen the story of Dale Cooper, now we have seen the beginning of Richard. Before Cooper maybe he was Mark, and before that Frank, and so on. Who knows how many times Cooper has tried and fail to find and save Laura, and how times he will continue to do so.

I have come to the conclusion that no matter how many seasons of Twin Peaks we see there will never be a definitive ending. Twin Peaks has always been about mystery and the battle of good vs evil. A battle that has existed long before we walked this Earth and will continue long after we are gone. Regardless of whether it is good that prevails or evil this battle is never ending.

Finally, if I had to guess who the dreamer is, my money would be on Cooper. Like the dreamer who dreams the dream and then lives inside it. Cooper is manipulating time and reality, and then living inside those realities trying to complete his mission.

Please leave your opinions. Sometimes the only way we can truly understand an artist’s work is with collective thought. After all, are we not all Dreamer’s?