OK, I've got this little question that bothers me. In the scene where Laura sees Annie in her bed (in a dream), she's told that good Cooper's in The Black Lodge. How's that possible? Cooper's not even been sent to Twin Peaks yet. Is there something I'm missing?
shareBlack Lodge and other "dreamland" events happen on a different time scale than everyday ones. You are correct that in everyday time those events had not happened yet.
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that's why in the series when cooper is reading her diary, there is an entry about her having a dream and seeing an old man in the black lodge and telling him who killed her. the same as cooper's dream a few weeks later (when an older version of himself is there and laura whispers in his ear).
shareI agree that the lodge is outside time. But this meeting between Laura (dreaming in her moment in time, but already dead when Dale dreamed it) with Dale means that the Laura from Dale's dream was not a doppelganger. A doppelganger, by traditional definition, is an evil spirit masquerading as a copy of a human being. Her strange gestures and manner of speaking then are not qualities of a doppelganger, but of someone transformed, or corrupted, by the power of the lodge. And all doppelgangers of formerly living persons may be the persons themselves (or, more accurately, their souls), similarly transformed or corrupted. Or parts of them, in the case of the dwarf and the one-armed man.
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