I know maybe these can be only "artistical" shots withouth any other intention, but, I´ve always thought that what happens inside the lodges (at least when there´s some kind of interaction between humans beings and spirits) can be "broadcasted" through people´s dreams, as a way of sending messages to them, just to communicate something (a piece of advice, a warning, asking for help...). Maybe what we see in the last episode is something that, sooner or later, someone will dream about in Twin Peaks, presumably someone with some kind of "gift" (major Briggs, the Log Lady...), just the same way Cooper had the same dream about LMFAP and Laura at the beginning of the show. May this conception be connected with what Hawk says about "dream souls that wander" and what Phillip Jeffries says to FBI in its Philadelphia headquarters?
Maybe the appearance of the lodges as a group of, more or less, identical red rooms and hallways is the result of a collective creation through the subconcious of generations and generations of Twin Peaks´ citizens, and the spirits that inhabit this place could be ectoplasmic creations. It could be something similar to the famous paranormal spanish case of "The faces of Bélmez" (in the sixties, in the little village of Bélmez, some faces started to appear like some kind of drawings on the floor and the walls of the house of an elderly woman, and some parapsychologists had the theory that those "drawings" were ectoplasmic creations of the owner of the house´s subconcious) but brought to a bigger scale.
Anyway, don´t take this too seriously, I know there are lots of weak points in this theory, I haven´t thought about it in deep, really. It´s just an abstract idea, as I said
Bluefrank: it´s interesting to see that the Rosicrucianism reading matches with the wandering dream souls communicating with people through dreams and visions (and, why not, as you say, with us, the audience, as well!) I have also enjoyed a lot reading that article by Brett Steven Abelman, LostInTheMovies. Thanks for the link! I didn´t know about it, and I´m aware that there must be tons of Twin Peaks´ theories I still haven´t read, so it´s very funny to notice how every fan can reach more or less very similar conclusions at some point. And, yes, StealThisCorn, you´re right about that MIKE´s scene, I have forgotten it! The curious thing is that all of these “breaking the fourth wall” examples are always played by “spirit beings”, which makes me remember as well first Cooper´s dream, when MIKE says to him the famous poem (ok, in that specific shot we are seeing Coop´s POV, but we can still interpret that it can also be audience´s point of view. Nevertheless, that shot in the European version of the pilot it wasn´t supposed to be a dream).