Light and dark, inside and out, before and after, in the mind and in the eye, you show these as separate but dependent. I reacted by combining them in photoshop, because I felt a need for more continuity. The shots do not, as you say, register and align, so when their separate lights, spaces, times, and reactions are combined by layering some of their separation remained. I liked it better that way, though how close and when these parts should be together only you know.
Bruce