There are several red chairs dropped around the game. It has been assumed that they are a reference to Twin Peaks' second episode where Agent Cooper is dreaming of Laura Palmer the victim of the murder he is investigating.
Episode 1: Nightmare
When you are in the Oh Deer Diner in Episode 1 Nightmare you have to first walk to the left, then go to the first table to the left. Look out of the window at the building on the left. On oneFile:Lego.jpg
This is the window that Barbara Jagger is behind.
of the windows there can be seen a dark figure. This figure won't be there after you talk with Barbara Jagger. This means that the dark figure behind the window actually is Barbara Jagger.
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This is the same place after you speak with Barbara Jagger.
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The first two pages of the manuscript found in this level, the voice reading them out is Max Payne's voice.
After you have seen Doctor Nelson, head towards Sarah Breaker's office, and on the wall are a list of missing people, who are actually video game developers. This form of Easter Egg is also in Halo 3 (see).
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When you wake up in the Cauldron Lake Lodge, in the room opposite (Emerson's room), on a table is an Xbox 360, with the game Night Springs, which is not only the show you watch on TV's around the game, but Alan also wrote an episode for it.
In the same room, there is a white board which contains drawings on what seems like a plan for an Alan Wake (or a game similar to it in the Alan Wake story) level.
After scanning the Microsoft Tag in Episode 4 "The Truth" on the second floor of the clinic you are given Dr. Emil Hartman's phone number: 1-857-239-7601
The Anderson Brothers are also playing a Night Springs board game in the level.
Emerson, a crazy video game developer, makes a reference of Max Payne and the "Bullet Time" ability.
Shortly after you pass the Windmill on the way to the farm, just before the Stage, if you go left past the windmill to where the hidden chest is located, further back, behind the small barn, are 3 Crosses representing graves. Upon approaching these graves, the dark presence will take them over, and 3 Skeletons will rise out of the ground, and be flung at you, then reassemble and repeat, until you destroy them.
If you pick up the phone in front of the Motel in Act 3, you'll hear "The Deer Story", an actual event that happened at one point in Matthew Porretta's life (the voice actor of Alan Wake).
