Let me explain, no let me sum up...
I've been trying to put the pieces of the puzzle that is Lost together for four years, just like you all have been too. I've been theorizing and over analyzing and pulling my hair out. But in the car yesterday on the way home from work, it all sorta just clicked.
So let me get straight to the point ...
I've previously said that everything on Lost could be explained by the concepts of time and time travel, but when I really tried to figure out how that stuff could explain weirdness like the smoke monster and dead people appearing again, I really couldn't.
But now I can ... So I'll just say it.
When a person dies on Lost (according to the concepts of the show), they can do one of two things: die or consciousness travel.
The episode "The Constant" really got me thinking. When Desmond was in Daniel's office in England and he "returned" after having "jumped" back to the helicopter/freighter, Daniel told him that he'd been sitting in the chair all along, sorta comatose. When we saw George Minkowski on the bed, he was a vegetable, then he was awake and said he'd been riding on a Ferris wheel. We also now know that people who can consciousness travel, have been exposed to high amounts of radiation or magnetism.
I was here moments ago ...
When Charlie "drowned" in the looking glass, he didn't actually die, per se. His body did drown, his lungs filled up with water. But his mind consciousness traveled to a past version of himself. Why Charlie, and not someone like Shannon or Boone or Arzt who also died on the island? Because Charlie was exposed to high levels of magnetism. He was in the Swan station when Desmond turned the key.
I've previously said in past theory, that I thought that along with Desmond, three other people time traveled as well: Eko, Locke & Charlie. But I now think I was wrong. At the moment of the key turning, the only one who time traveled was Desmond because he was directly exposed and in the center of the magnetic force when it was released. But at the same time, Locke, Eko & Charlie were also highly exposed to magnetism, giving them the ability to consciousness travel. Proof of this is that the three of them are some of the only characters on the show to get visions from the island in the form of dreams (Claire did as well, but more on her later). So Charlie's final moments ... he showed the "not Penny's boat" message to Desmond, floated in the cabin, crossed himself, and ... consciousness traveled, leaving his floating shell of a body in the looking glass (this brings to mind Miles' quote "that isn't Naomi, it's just meat). He most likely did it without knowing ! that he could do such a thing, but in his last moments of life, he did it, and spared himself the fate of a watery death. Now I know what you're saying. When Desmond consciousness traveled in "The Constant" he didn't yet have a Constant, so he shuttled back and forth between timelines uncontrollably until he made contact with Penny. If this had happened to Charlie, then the minute he shuttled back to his body on the island, he'd be a waterlogged corpse. But he didn't shuttle back and forth, because whether he realized it or not he already had a Constant! Daniel said that a Constant is anything we deem important that exists in both timelines. We assume that a Constant is a person (because so far we've seen it be Penny for Desmond, and Desmond for Daniel), but in Charlie's case it's not a person (not it's not even Claire), it's music. Charlie fulfilled Desmond's prophecy, but how did he do it, he did it with music, by typing in the Beach Boys onto the key pad. Music i! s what got Charlie through Heroin withdrawal, and its the driv! ing forc e in his life. So, when he arrived in the new (albeit past) timeline version of himself, after the looking glass incident, his Beach Boys success was still in his head, and only reinforced his love of music, making it his constant. So how do we know that Charlie indeed consciousness traveled, and didn't just die? Well, he appeared to Hurley at Santa Rosa. And what did he say? "I did die, but I'm also here".
Checkmate, Mr. Eko
When this line was said in "There's No Place Like Home" mainly people wrote into message boards saying it was a gimmicky line, just to mess with people's heads. I say nay nay. When Hurley talks to Sayid he says that he's been regularly seeing dead people. But this isn't true, because Eko's not really dead. Neither is Sayid, which Hurley believes he is. Remember, Hurley told Jack that he believes that all of them are dead, including Hurley. But in reality, Eko is really visiting Hurley. So why didn't we or Sayid see him? Same reason why Charlie disappeared when Hurley closed his eyes, because a person who consciousness travels but has a constant can come and go at will.
Dis is not de way ...
So how did Eko consciousness travel? Well, we actually saw this happen. When Eko "died" we saw his "final" moments, him as a child again with his brother Yemi in Nigeria. Here's something strange I noticed with some of the deaths. The ones like Charlie & Eko who've appeared to Hurley, both died at a Dharma station. Charlie at the Looking Glass and Eko at the Pearl (above it anyways). There's been rumors about Ana Lucia making a return appearance in Season 5, and yes she too died in a Dharma station (Swan). What does this matter you say? Well, there's been confirmations by Damon & Carlton that there are off-island Dharma stations. Its my theory that when a person who's had exposure to magnetism/radiation (Ana Lucia may have had exposure at some point in her life that we don't know about yet) and "dies" in an island Dharma station, that they consciousness-travel to an off island Dharma station (or near one). I believe there was one in England for Charlie, one! in Nigeria for Eko, and one in LA for Ana. We also know now that there's one in Australia in Uluru (where Rose & Bernard met Isaac). I think that the Oceanic 6 are going to have to travel to these places (after finding their constants of course) and then consciousness travel back to the island.
See ya in another life brotha ...
I'm going to end this really long theory with a look back at two episodes of big importance to the show. First, Expose. Yes everyone hates it and it seems pointless, but it wasn't. It was foreshadowing. While Nikki & Paulo themselves didn't have quite that much importance to the overall story, what happened to them, helped us get prepared for the idea of consciousness-traveling. I don't think that Nikki or Paulo consciousness-traveled at all, but I do think that the idea of burying someone they assumed were dead, but were in fact just paralyzed, foreshadowed the idea that when a person consciousness travels, their mind has gone, but only the body remains, but their not really dead. Okay, enough Expose, and onto the most important episode of the series, Flashes Before Your Eyes.
Desmond lived his entire life down the path that took him to the island. He became a monk, got fired, met Penny, broke up with Penny, joined the army, got thrown in jail, went on the sailing race, washed up on the island, pushed the button with Kelvin, met the Losties and then .... turned the failsafe key. The moment he turned the failsafe key, his mind left his body (his body was blown into the jungle, left for dead) and traveled back to mid 90s England where he lived with Penny in his rat trap of a flat. Then he met Ms. Hawking, broke up with Penny again, and wound up back in the bar where he was hit over the head with a cricket bat by Jimmy Lennon. In the show, we see that he immediately wakes up, but I don't think that's what actually happened. I think Jimmy Lennon (who works for whoever Ms. Hawking works for) hit him, took him to Ms. Hawking and then brought him to the England Dharma station. Then they got his mind to travel back to the island, where it went back ! into the body in the jungle and he woke up in his birthday suit. But what happened to the Desmond in England who was with Ms. Hawking and Jimmy Lennon? Well they did one of two things with his body: a) Disposed of it. or b) put him in a hospital hooked up to life support. If they chose b, then it's possible for Desmond at some point (now that he's officially off the island) to find that hospital and encounter himself (even though that's only a body (just meat). Makes you think about the body in Locke's casket, doesn't it?
Theory by Scott Gingold
I've been trying to put the pieces of the puzzle that is Lost together for four years, just like you all have been too. I've been theorizing and over analyzing and pulling my hair out. But in the car yesterday on the way home from work, it all sorta just clicked.
So let me get straight to the point ...
I've previously said that everything on Lost could be explained by the concepts of time and time travel, but when I really tried to figure out how that stuff could explain weirdness like the smoke monster and dead people appearing again, I really couldn't.
But now I can ... So I'll just say it.
When a person dies on Lost (according to the concepts of the show), they can do one of two things: die or consciousness travel.
The episode "The Constant" really got me thinking. When Desmond was in Daniel's office in England and he "returned" after having "jumped" back to the helicopter/freighter, Daniel told him that he'd been sitting in the chair all along, sorta comatose. When we saw George Minkowski on the bed, he was a vegetable, then he was awake and said he'd been riding on a Ferris wheel. We also now know that people who can consciousness travel, have been exposed to high amounts of radiation or magnetism.
I was here moments ago ...
When Charlie "drowned" in the looking glass, he didn't actually die, per se. His body did drown, his lungs filled up with water. But his mind consciousness traveled to a past version of himself. Why Charlie, and not someone like Shannon or Boone or Arzt who also died on the island? Because Charlie was exposed to high levels of magnetism. He was in the Swan station when Desmond turned the key.
I've previously said in past theory, that I thought that along with Desmond, three other people time traveled as well: Eko, Locke & Charlie. But I now think I was wrong. At the moment of the key turning, the only one who time traveled was Desmond because he was directly exposed and in the center of the magnetic force when it was released. But at the same time, Locke, Eko & Charlie were also highly exposed to magnetism, giving them the ability to consciousness travel. Proof of this is that the three of them are some of the only characters on the show to get visions from the island in the form of dreams (Claire did as well, but more on her later). So Charlie's final moments ... he showed the "not Penny's boat" message to Desmond, floated in the cabin, crossed himself, and ... consciousness traveled, leaving his floating shell of a body in the looking glass (this brings to mind Miles' quote "that isn't Naomi, it's just meat). He most likely did it without knowing ! that he could do such a thing, but in his last moments of life, he did it, and spared himself the fate of a watery death. Now I know what you're saying. When Desmond consciousness traveled in "The Constant" he didn't yet have a Constant, so he shuttled back and forth between timelines uncontrollably until he made contact with Penny. If this had happened to Charlie, then the minute he shuttled back to his body on the island, he'd be a waterlogged corpse. But he didn't shuttle back and forth, because whether he realized it or not he already had a Constant! Daniel said that a Constant is anything we deem important that exists in both timelines. We assume that a Constant is a person (because so far we've seen it be Penny for Desmond, and Desmond for Daniel), but in Charlie's case it's not a person (not it's not even Claire), it's music. Charlie fulfilled Desmond's prophecy, but how did he do it, he did it with music, by typing in the Beach Boys onto the key pad. Music i! s what got Charlie through Heroin withdrawal, and its the driv! ing forc e in his life. So, when he arrived in the new (albeit past) timeline version of himself, after the looking glass incident, his Beach Boys success was still in his head, and only reinforced his love of music, making it his constant. So how do we know that Charlie indeed consciousness traveled, and didn't just die? Well, he appeared to Hurley at Santa Rosa. And what did he say? "I did die, but I'm also here".
Checkmate, Mr. Eko
When this line was said in "There's No Place Like Home" mainly people wrote into message boards saying it was a gimmicky line, just to mess with people's heads. I say nay nay. When Hurley talks to Sayid he says that he's been regularly seeing dead people. But this isn't true, because Eko's not really dead. Neither is Sayid, which Hurley believes he is. Remember, Hurley told Jack that he believes that all of them are dead, including Hurley. But in reality, Eko is really visiting Hurley. So why didn't we or Sayid see him? Same reason why Charlie disappeared when Hurley closed his eyes, because a person who consciousness travels but has a constant can come and go at will.
Dis is not de way ...
So how did Eko consciousness travel? Well, we actually saw this happen. When Eko "died" we saw his "final" moments, him as a child again with his brother Yemi in Nigeria. Here's something strange I noticed with some of the deaths. The ones like Charlie & Eko who've appeared to Hurley, both died at a Dharma station. Charlie at the Looking Glass and Eko at the Pearl (above it anyways). There's been rumors about Ana Lucia making a return appearance in Season 5, and yes she too died in a Dharma station (Swan). What does this matter you say? Well, there's been confirmations by Damon & Carlton that there are off-island Dharma stations. Its my theory that when a person who's had exposure to magnetism/radiation (Ana Lucia may have had exposure at some point in her life that we don't know about yet) and "dies" in an island Dharma station, that they consciousness-travel to an off island Dharma station (or near one). I believe there was one in England for Charlie, one! in Nigeria for Eko, and one in LA for Ana. We also know now that there's one in Australia in Uluru (where Rose & Bernard met Isaac). I think that the Oceanic 6 are going to have to travel to these places (after finding their constants of course) and then consciousness travel back to the island.
See ya in another life brotha ...
I'm going to end this really long theory with a look back at two episodes of big importance to the show. First, Expose. Yes everyone hates it and it seems pointless, but it wasn't. It was foreshadowing. While Nikki & Paulo themselves didn't have quite that much importance to the overall story, what happened to them, helped us get prepared for the idea of consciousness-traveling. I don't think that Nikki or Paulo consciousness-traveled at all, but I do think that the idea of burying someone they assumed were dead, but were in fact just paralyzed, foreshadowed the idea that when a person consciousness travels, their mind has gone, but only the body remains, but their not really dead. Okay, enough Expose, and onto the most important episode of the series, Flashes Before Your Eyes.
Desmond lived his entire life down the path that took him to the island. He became a monk, got fired, met Penny, broke up with Penny, joined the army, got thrown in jail, went on the sailing race, washed up on the island, pushed the button with Kelvin, met the Losties and then .... turned the failsafe key. The moment he turned the failsafe key, his mind left his body (his body was blown into the jungle, left for dead) and traveled back to mid 90s England where he lived with Penny in his rat trap of a flat. Then he met Ms. Hawking, broke up with Penny again, and wound up back in the bar where he was hit over the head with a cricket bat by Jimmy Lennon. In the show, we see that he immediately wakes up, but I don't think that's what actually happened. I think Jimmy Lennon (who works for whoever Ms. Hawking works for) hit him, took him to Ms. Hawking and then brought him to the England Dharma station. Then they got his mind to travel back to the island, where it went back ! into the body in the jungle and he woke up in his birthday suit. But what happened to the Desmond in England who was with Ms. Hawking and Jimmy Lennon? Well they did one of two things with his body: a) Disposed of it. or b) put him in a hospital hooked up to life support. If they chose b, then it's possible for Desmond at some point (now that he's officially off the island) to find that hospital and encounter himself (even though that's only a body (just meat). Makes you think about the body in Locke's casket, doesn't it?
Theory by Scott Gingold
