What do Cohle's hallucinations represent? [duplicate]

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What did rust Carcosa see?

Cohle pursues Childress into the catacombs behind the house, which Childress identifies as "Carcosa". Cohle discovers an idol draped in yellow and covered in skulls \u2014 the "Yellow King" \u2014 and has a hallucination of a spiraling vortex, the same vortex that had been drawn on many of the victims over the past 17 years.

What did rust see in the last episode of True Detective?

It seems fitting, then, that he hallucinates a cosmic vortex upon finally finding 'Carcosa'. This is symbolic, according to True Detective director Cary Fukunaga: We landed on the spiral formation of the clouds as a wrapping-up of the symbology, or at least a book-ending of the symbology.

What was rust looking at True Detective?

In Rust's apartment Marty finds Rust staring at the wall or something that looks like a thermostat on the wall, a minute later Marty is in the same spot staring and says "you supposed to see both eyes in this?"

What is Carcosa in True Detective?

On True Detective Carcosa seems to be the name given to the old stone ruins in the Louisiana bayou area which are shown on Season 1's last episode. It is considered a place of worship in which macabre rituals were performed, often including child sacrifice and sexual abuse.

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True Detective - How Matthew McConaughey Created Rust Cohle

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