Like many here, I've been struggling with the paradox of Eloise the Rat and her ability to run the maze after 'consciousness' time travel in Flashes Before the Eyes. Daniel claimed that he sent Eloise's consciousness forward in time 1 hour when he would train her to run the maze. When she returns a moment later, she is able to run the maze - an hour before she supposedly learns how - and then dies. The paradox: if she is already dead, how can she be alive an hour from now to learn the maze?
People have speculated that time in "Lost" is stuck in a repetitive loop, like a child with a crayon scrawling a circle on a piece of paper over and over. Each loop is almost identical, but with small variations. Each loop is a complete entity, with a beginning and end (WHH).
However, within the latest loop, the future is indeterminate. The crayon line hasn't been scrawled and is subject to a infinite number of variables (Free Will).
Perhaps EMF induced 'consciousness time travel' is in reality 'consciousness loop travel'. The consciousness travels back to a previous loop, where, in Eloise's case, she didn't die and Daniel trained her to run the maze like he had planned. When she returned to the current loop, she brought that knowledge back with her.
It may be that all of the supposed occurences of time travel, both conscious and physical, in the show have been in fact loop travel. Each time that we think we are moving to a different time within the present loop, we are actually moving to a different loop. This may help to explain the producers early statements that 'time' travel (at least in the classic sense) would not be part of the show. Objects like the compass and Daniel's journal which seem to survive beyond an individual loop act as a mechanism for communication between loops.
People have speculated that time in "Lost" is stuck in a repetitive loop, like a child with a crayon scrawling a circle on a piece of paper over and over. Each loop is almost identical, but with small variations. Each loop is a complete entity, with a beginning and end (WHH).
However, within the latest loop, the future is indeterminate. The crayon line hasn't been scrawled and is subject to a infinite number of variables (Free Will).
Perhaps EMF induced 'consciousness time travel' is in reality 'consciousness loop travel'. The consciousness travels back to a previous loop, where, in Eloise's case, she didn't die and Daniel trained her to run the maze like he had planned. When she returned to the current loop, she brought that knowledge back with her.
It may be that all of the supposed occurences of time travel, both conscious and physical, in the show have been in fact loop travel. Each time that we think we are moving to a different time within the present loop, we are actually moving to a different loop. This may help to explain the producers early statements that 'time' travel (at least in the classic sense) would not be part of the show. Objects like the compass and Daniel's journal which seem to survive beyond an individual loop act as a mechanism for communication between loops.
