David Lynch ends daily weather report by recalling dream about being a dying German soldier on D-Day

But before we get to that, Lynch’s video tells us about the weather. Los Angeles was, on the morning of June 6th 2020, “a chilly 61 degrees Fahrenheit, 16 Celsius” and would hopefully see its cloudy skies replaced with “golden sunshine” into the afternoon. That finished, he reminds viewers that he’s speaking on the same day when, 76 years ago, the Allies invaded Nazi-occupied France.

“I had a dream one night that I was killed in Normandy on that day,” Lynch remembers. “I was a German soldier, 16 years-old.” He goes on to describe how his “mother was so sad to see me go” and that his dream-self walked through foggy sand dunes before getting shot by an American soldier. “I dropped my rifle and grabbed my stomach, and I could feel this warm blood coming out,” he continues. “And the next thing I knew my body got very, very hot. And the next thing I knew, I was on my knees. And the next thing… lights out.”

The dream’s details are almost like a Lynch film or TV series in brief: The depths of humanity’s self-perpetuating horror is captured in dream-cloaked imagery that comes to an abrupt, nightmarish conclusion whose simplicity invites us to dwell on the complex networks of history and culture it stands in for. They’re also, more simply, a creative way to segue from delivering a weather update to memorializing a historical anniversary.

Local news anchors, take note.

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