Flight 815-ers Unite discussion

Ok, so we know that once Dessy turned the failsafe key and blew the Hatch to holey hell, he started getting preminitions, right?!

I started to think, well, what if those werent preminitons, perse, but were actual flashes of the past. Of things they already lived through.

Guess what im getting at is a sort of replay, or time loop, where events keep repeating themselves until what has to happen does happen.(like groundhogs day, or the one episode of X-files where the bank kept getting robbed)
I also feel that is why Dessy kept seeing all those visions of charlie dying. Not that they were GOING to happen, but that they HAD happened in the past, and they just keep crashing and reliving everything until they do what has to get done. Maybe that is why claire never makes the chopper... it wasnt supposed to happen THIS time, but it happened in the past, in one of thier ’other’ times....

Maybe the first time round, charlie was struck by lighting, and they werent able to end the blocked transmission in the looking glass, so things went terribly wrong, everyone died, and recrashed. But then charlie ends up taking an arrow through the throat, and messes it up again, so they recrash, then he finally dies the way he should.... or did he? he dies this time underwater.. and now Dessy has no more preminitions..... does he?

What do you think? Am i completely off my rocker?

No I think it's an awesome idea! So like parrell universes kinda.

Oooh, I like it!

For some reason this also brought to mind a supposed "real life" time theory that I read a little about a LONG time ago. It was about time not being linear at all, but being more like a weave or something. I can't recall now the specifics of what I read. It was really out there stuff about how when people have premonitions they are really just "remembering the past" that has already happened b/c time exists all at once and does not *happen* from one day to the next as it appears to.

Anyway, here's a link to the book I read. I wish I could remember more. I'm not necessarily saying I support the theory in real life, but perhaps the writers are using some of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exper...

Hey Connie, I don't know why but your comment reminded me of that movie with Gwinnett Paltrow on it where she misses the train and has one future and the other one she takes the train and has another and its kind of happening at the same time ... just a thought!

I'm thinking of Proof (which was fantastic) but that's not it....

My husband who has an incredible memory just said the movie is called sliding doors! He truly is the better half!

Yep, that's the one (Sliding Doors). I have it an I love it though I haven't watched it in a while. It's that whole "course correcting" thing they are doing with Lost. Remember when Des went to buy Penny's ring and the shopkeeper told him that's not how it's suppose to be and basically how destiny or whatever would eventually find a way to get him to the island?

One thing I thought about this morning though, was that in Des's flashes he see's a future that never happens...so that part doesn't really fit with Dunne's theories b/c according to him (Dunne) everything has already happened and that when people dream they are in a state of consciousness which allows them to merely "remember" the things which have already happened. Since Des's visions are different from what's actually happened in the future this wouldn't really hold water.

I do still think though that the writers could be using aspects of this theory or something very similar.