• Did the apartment swap happen?
• Was she one of Diane's lovers, or just a roommate?
• Is she the REAL Camilla in Diane's life - there is no Camilla?
• What does "three weeks" mean?

• Why would Lynch have her wear the same outfit in reality and dream with the latter chronologically coming first? Is Diane a psychic or does it hint into a different direction of how to connect those scenes?

skytop wrote:some have speculated that in the "dream" sequence Derosa might not actually see Betty, as if Betty is not really there. If you watch the scene again with that in mind you may notice that she never really looks in Betty's direction and that her answers might have been prompted by Rita's awkward silence rather than Betty's questions.

elijawan wrote:In other words, the "we switched apartments" line from the dream, while not necessarily "true" in the sense that it actually happened, is carried through coherently to the reality section. Nothing else we see in the reality part, at least that I can recall, is presented as a logical and un-ambiguous continuation of what is presented in the dream.

elijawan wrote:Lynch … did re-shoot some scenes (esp Park Hotel/Adam)

elijawan wrote:New to the forum, been reading for weeks now. Fantastic discussions.
(Just to clarify up front, I prefer to call the first portion of the movie the 'dream' and the second portion of the movie 'reality' for ease of reference only)

Has anyone attached any significance to the fact that the neighbor/woman in #12/DeRosa (Wi12) is the only character in the movie that knows Diane Selwyn in both the "dream" and "reality" portions of the movie?

Wi12 doesn't recognize Naomi Watts's character (Betty) as being Diane Selwyn in the dream, but she does know who Diane Selwyn is, and she certainly knows Diane in reality.

I haven't wrapped my head around it just yet, but I can't escape the feeling that this is a pretty significant aspect of the Wi12 character, especially when I consider that the dream was shot as part of the TV pilot and the reality portion was produced to tie all of the dangling threads into a whole.

In his recycling actors, characters and themes from the dream, Lynch only allows for one character that knows Diane in both sections.

kmkmiller wrote:It is probably something only I see.

good point, ctyankee. lots of things just aren't established here.

ctyankee wrote:But, is it established that the Lamp Lady (i.e., W12) is the same character in both dream/reality? As we don't know her name, one could suggest that Lynch is using the Wizard of Oz approach of re-using actors. And as you mentioned yourself, that the Lamp Lady isn't taken back by the appearance of a Diane look-a-like on her front porch would seem to diminish any strong connection. After all, it's hard to make too much out of something that happens in a dream even if the character stays the same.