plot explanation - How can Jacoby be with Lana and Ben at the same time?

In href="http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/script21.html" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">Twin Peaks episode 21 (aka season 2,
episode 14), we see Dr. Jacoby at the Great Northern helping Ben work through his “Civil
War” insanity. Later, though, we see him walking out of the sheriff’s office, where he
claims to have spent the past 24 hours with Lana and
says:

Good, I wanted everyone
to hear this. I have just spent
most of the last 24 hours with this
charming
young
lady.

I’m pretty sure there
was no indication that a day passed between these two scenes and in the first Dr. Jacoby
looked pretty wrapped up in Ben's case. How can he have been in both places? Is there
any explanation - in-universe or otherwise - for what happened here? Or is this a simply
plot inconsistency that was overlooked?

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I just watched this
and I can definitely see what you are saying. We see Jacoby with Ben in his office in
one scene and almost literally in the next scene Jacoby is with Lana and claims they've
been together for "almost the past 24 hours". There does seem to be some inconsistency
or possible mixup of details here and its possible this was simply an overlooked
detail.

Personal Theory

That
said I do have a possible interpretation based on what can be evidenced from the
episode. In the scene in Ben's office, Ben
says:

Jeb, there is a great
day upon us. By dawn, our troops wiII be on the outskirts of
Washington. By midday, it wiII
faII.

At the end of the scene
when Ben and Jacoby are singing Dixie, we see an outside shot of The Great Northern at
what appears to be dusk.

The very next scene is Major
Briggs stumbling into the sheriff's office on what is definitely a different time of day
if not a completely new day as there is plenty of light outside. And minutes later we
see the part where Jacoby claims to have been with Lana for almost 24
hours.

To me all of these facts seem to indicate that the
scene with Ben occurred at the end of one day and the scene with Lana occurred on a
subsequent day and while we are seeing the scenes only minutes apart, at least a half
day or so has gone by. Of course a half a day isn't 24 hours, but I wouldn't put it past
Dr Jacoby to spend 12 hours with someone and then call that "almost 24 hours".

One should also consider the fact that Lana clearly has
the ability to put a spell on any man that she spends only a few minutes with to get
them to do anything for her as is demonstrated by her spending less than a minute with
the mayor and changing his mind from wanting to shoot her to wanting to adopt a child
with her.