Nature of time in the White and Black Lodges and the Red Room in Twin Peaks

The White Lodge and its counterpart the Black Lodge are parallel realities of immense importance in Twin Peaks. The Red Room is an extradimensional construct that permits beings to cross between our world and the lodges — or at least the Black Lodge.

Several incidents in Twin Peaks suggest that time flows differently in the lodges than in our world.

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  Major Briggs believes that he was in one of the lodges for only a short time, whereas his wife tells him he was missing for two days.

  
  


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  Upon the Major's return, the Log Lady notices something about him that reminds her of an incident in her childhood in which she was told she had disappeared for a whole day. However, she remembered feeling as if no time had passed at all.

  
  


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  In the final episode, ten hours pass in the real world while, for Cooper, only a few minutes pass for him while he is waiting in the Red Room.

  
  

Is there a constant dilation factor between time in the lodges and time in our world, or is the time at which an individual returns to our world controlled by forces from inside the lodges, or is the amount of time that passes in the real world while someone is in the lodges random?