What are your requirements, things you can’t do without? For some people, it changes depending on the circumstances: you need a travel pillow on an airplane, a soft bed and nice pillow in order to sleep, music in order to run or do a workout, some alcohol in order to socialize. What happens if you can’t have these things — does it make you unhappy or stressed out? Is the trip or social occasion or run less enjoyable? What happens when we let go of these needs, and just keep them as a “nice-to-have” option?

“Ideas are triggered by any number of things. I’ve gotten a couple ideas from sleeping dreams; I get ideas from daydreaming,” he continues. “The idea for the Red Room came when I was leaning against a warm car at sunset, and the idea for Bob came when I heard some girl say, ‘Don’t lock yourself in Laura’s room’ to Frank Silva. There’s a lot of ways ideas come, and I always say they’re a gift. They weren’t there, they weren’t there, they weren’t there, and suddenly they’re there. And I didn’t do anything. I just caught the idea.” Despite his surrealist brand of cinema, Lynch confesses that none of his ideas have ever come to him while under the influence of psychedelics. “My friends, you know, they say about peer pressure, they were all taking drugs and they told me not to take them,” he says in his folksy Missoula, Montana, accent. “I followed their advice.”