A question regarding "Lost"....?

Question

Is anyone else starting to think that the people of "Lost" are really not on that island, but are really trapped somewhere and jacked into some Matrix-style virtual reality? Maybe as part of some psychological experiment?

Maybe after they crashed, they were been put into it? Or maybe they really never got on a plane or crashed at all?

Any thoughts?

I didn't watch the producers thing that was suppose to give us some answers as to what "wasn't" going on.

But even if they really are on the island.... Is my theory still plausable? That they crashed, were unconscious, and put into a Dharma Initiative virtual reality experiment?

I just can't see how the writers and producers are going to explain away all the magical and miraculous stuff unless the Losties are not in some dreamlike reality.

Answer 1

I'm thinking that it's some sort of governmental, alternate planetary, facility-testing project. If you couple that up with the idea of their fertility treatments (i.e. the utopia theories), you've got a pretty good show. Ergo, it's not an island, it's a planet, Desmond isn't time-traveling, he's teleporting! The monster isn't a monster, it's actually just smoke & mirrors. It would be between each station just to keep the DHARMA Initiative employees away from running into each other. However, the big Discharge Incident back in the day, or even, moreover, the buildup of magnetism made it gradually manifest into the malevolent creature it is now. I mean, come on, look what happened to Desmond. He came out with his own personal results. As for everyone else, they ended up with Golden Tickets via Oceanic, the cover for the "gateway" to the project Island, to coin the phrase, so they can come & go, but Jack & Kate somehow managed to sneak away or barter a deal. Ben's job as the administrator, of sorts, is to keep them all in place, or secure them as residents of their project / experiment. I do have yet to place where the existing "they," or Third Party, as I like to call them come into this mix. That would basically entail the Whispering in the woods, Richard Alpert, the Hurley Bird, and a host of other goodies. DHARMA was a colony to populate & build it for the first time (then eventually carry-out the task at-hand of populating via fertility treatments & scientific experiments, utopian society-like implements, etc.), but the Oceanic survivors weren't aware of their inadvertent destiny to end up in this hackneyed experiment. Low & behold, on Jack's way back to LA (flash-forward = Hoffs/Lawlor Funeral Parlor anagram!), Sun & Jin Kwon were sitting behind him on the flight. The reason he "wanted it to crash," is so that he could end up back on the island, e.g. back on that alternate plane of existence / where everyone else was, where he had problems to solve. In his unreasonable state, he was of the impression that crashing planes were the way to end up back on the island, when in reality there were actually more reasonable transport methods that we have yet to see first-hand in the last couple of seasons.

If you go to oceanicflight815.com, an ABC-sponsored site, you'll have the ability to "explore," which just connects video clips from the first 2 seasons. This supports my theory. Notice how they resemble the formation of all the hatches on the island, interconnected! Beyond that, it is even further proven by a pencil-drawn map (ref: Rousseau's maps) connecting hatch-to-hatch. Once all dots are connected, so to speak, the image goes into orbit, by magnetism, hinting at planetary orbit, suggesting it's an entity all by itself. That's my theory.

Ta-da! lol.

Erik

P.S. - Hurley coulda stolen the show, but Sawyer just had the best and most chilling scene and line when he got rid of our old enemy Mr. Friendly. I just absolutely loved that scene. Five stars.

Answer 2

OK I AM WONDERING THE SAME THING. ALTHOUGH WITH LAST NIGHTS EPISODE REALLY THREW ME OFF. I MEAN WHY WOULD JACK WANT TO GO BACK TO THE ISLAND. I THINK THAT BEN AND LOCKE WERE TRYING TO MAKE ALL THE PEOPLE STAY FOR A REASON LIKE GOING BACK TO THE "REAL WORLD" IS NOT WORTH IT. BEN WAS THE ONE WHO SAID TO JACK OF WHY DID HE WANT TO GO BACK WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING FOR HIM. ALL THE OTHER LOST MEMBERS WERE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT I MEAN WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO GO BACK WHEN IN THE FIRST PLACE THEY WERE ALL TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM SOMETHING AND THE ISLAND WAS THE ANSWER. JACK DIDNT KNOW THAT UNTILL HE MADE THE MISTAKE AND GOT HIS PEOPLE OFF THE ISLAND. EVEN IF THEY WERE RESCUDE THEY ALL HAD TO GO BACK TO THE PAST. HOPEFULLY LOST WILL BE EXPLAIND BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHATS GOING ON.

Answer 3

I've read other people's theories about how maybe the "losties" are trapped in between the real world and the afterlife. Maybe they cannot pass into the afterlife until they come to terms with the bad situations in their lives.

Answer 4

I kinda thought that they were all dead and in limbo.... but last nights ending with being rescued screwed that theory!

What a great ending! Can't waite till the start!! Will they re run the shows... maybe we will catch some other clues!

Answer 5

Well, they had that special last week where the producers said that they are really on the island, not in purgatory or anything. They are alive and on the island.

Answer 6

Ever see Donnie Darko? I've kind of had a similar theory to that. That when the initial nuclear explosion happened, it sent them into a sort of warp in time (kind of like the one Des had)

here: I asked something similar to this a week ago
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak9EaxRGb4VXSUA1qKOgisDty6IX?qid=20070515071123AASP8s8

Answer 7

I am getting so tired of the show, I just get more cofused every week. I don't know how much longer they can drag the show on. they got to start giving some answers next season, or people are going to get frustrated and stop watching.

Answer 8

I dont want charley to die, they need to let him float out of that portal and go up to the boat and be saved

Answer 9

Geez Dude, your guess is as good as mine... I love that show BUT what's going on!?