How ‘Ressurection’ works
Bear with me as i just had this thought and i havent thought it out at all so i’ll make it up as i go along (just like lost)
So i was thinking about how people that die come back alive on the island or for that matter how severe injuries are instantly healed. Now there are the obvious 2 that have come back alive Christian and Locke but theres also, if you remember Lockes dad. Its not fact but Lockes dad said that the last thing he could remember was being in a car crash and the next thing he remembered he was on the island, so im concluding, although it was never explained, that Lockes dad was killed by the Others and transported to the island by some means (probably the sub), when he arrived on the island he ‘woke up’ thinking he had died and gone to hell, remember he said to Locke ‘dont you know where you are?’ implying he thought they were in hell.
I just wanted to remind people that there possibly could have been 3 ressurections that we know of. So what are the ressurections? My theory is that Lost is in a completely different time period which could be dependent on how you arrive to the island, we assume that when 815 crashed on the island it was actually 2004. correct me if im wrong but do we ever get a date check from the others? If the Island is in a different time period, say the past, that means that if a body were to be brought back to the island it would come back alive because the person simply hadnt been killed yet.
Taking the example of Locke he is dead, if he were to go back to the real world he would instantly die because he is did in the ‘future’, but because hes gone back to the ‘past’ he is alive.
Just as the 316 plane crashed, everything changed, it was night time and it changed to daytime it appeared as if they had gone through some kind of timeloop.
OK im kind of confusing myself i hope someone can follow my train of thought and add to this.
Another question, can someone explain to me why the doctor on the freighters body reached the island but ‘before’ he was actually killed? ive always wondered how that worked.
the island at that point was slightly forward in time to the outside world therefore the doc washed up before he was killed….thought that would have bin obvious. i kinda like ur theory about resurrection tho. but dont believe it is the case because like alot of people think I believe there is a religious plot behind this story and fobbing resurrection off as being a time traveller just wouldn’t be right. Plus I don’t think time travel has anything to do with the healing aspects of the island because if you remember Rose she had cancer for a few years and when they first came to the island they didn’t go back years….maybe a few days at most. Yet somehow Rose became well even though in that time frame she still had the disease.
the island going back in time every 108 minutes, to a time-period before the events took place would explain all resurrections, disease/injury healing, and the fact Richard didn’t age.
However, it doesn’t explain why the body washed up before the doc died; and doesn’t explain why Locke has a shaved head and he had a hideous comeover prior to his paralysis! hahah.
I think it is partly due to time travel, but we can’t discount the statement that the island is “a place where miracles happen.”
Well, the last thing Anthony Cooper remembered was an EMT smiling at him in the back of an ambulance… Sounds like he was alive at least for a little bit after his crash.
If people come back to life because they’re in a time in which they haven’t died yet might people also cease to exist if they arrive on the island at a time before they were born? If the island is 15 years behind the time they came from wouldn’t they get younger as they’re in a time in which they have not aged those 15 years yet?
what causes the resurrections is a bit of mystery. the island does seem to have healing powers.
Thanks for your comments, like i said my theory wasnt too thought out just some ideas i had.
But i do think that it is likely that time travel, just because a few people think there will be a religious doesnt really make it so as Wesley said, i think there will be a scientific ending. Without getting to poetic we’re maybe turning to religion because we dont have all the answers right now, just like life lol!
But im not sure exactly how my theory will work esp with the points made by Willis and Wesley about Roses cancer and Lockes combover.
I just have a feeling that Locke and Christian wont be able to go anywhere apart from the time theyre in, also its interesting that Locke and Christian are in the same time and place and both ressurected, wonder what will happen if they meet
Im guessing you had everything planned before this statement…
“remember he said to Locke
whatistime, the one thing I have always questioned, was Anthony Cooper. His behaviour on ‘the island’ did not seem to fit!
One idea I take from your theory is, what if Cooper did die, and when he was transported back to ‘the island’, he was transported to a time which preceded his off-island death.
That may account for his strange behaviour, including the fact he was even present.
I love how people try to prove their theories by using some other theory that has never been proven. Failed logic.
1. It is not obvious that two people have been resurrected.
2. Nothing has ever been mentioned on Lost or certainly not scientifically that if a dead body travels backwards in time to a time when the person is alive, that they would be resurrected. Pure speculation.
lost4815162342, then how would you explain John Locke’s resurrection?
If that is possible, how can you be so sure, that doesn’t ring the same for other people.
Yes, it is speculation, and that doesn’t mean it can’t still be true.
Right, I’m not ruling out the possibility that Cooper died in the back of the ambulance… Maybe Ben killed him… who knows? But…
As I mentioned above, if dead people come back to life simply because they’re in a time before they died then we can reasonably expect to see other things happening like people suddenly being younger, suddenly being older or ceasing to exist when they get to the island, depending on what time it is when they left wherever they came from and what time it is on the island when they arrive.
From what I understand the Losties crashed in 2004 (their time) but the island was considerably back in time, the mid 90s, Desmond letting the timer go to zero made the island emerge in 2004, the plane crashes, he presses the button and the island goes back to mid 90s. That would explain why Rose was cancer free and Locke could walk.
Thank you Wilma, that is a great point/theory, i didnt think of that but it really fits in well and im sure something like that happend. Do you think it explains the ressurections also?
Ok, so why is it so selective about what gets reversed when someone goes back in time? Rose and Locke are cured because they’re in a time before they had cancer/couldn’t walk. Why didn’t Walt revert to being a baby? Why was Claire still pregnant?
got to agree with highbrow here im afraid….what your saying isn’t travelling through time at all.which is exactly whats happening. because for that to take effect then they would have to physically get younger to the time before there illness etc. another point is ben linus in the most recent episode he survives the plane crash and takes a walk into the jungle. and hey presto his arm is no longer broken. so the island does heal ben…..so how come it didn’t heal him of his spinal tuma???? i think its a case of what happens on the island stays on the island. if something bad happened off of the island ie paralysis then the island gives you a fresh start by healing you…..i dont know if anyone realised but everytime somebody is healed they have just awoken from being unconcious. i think smokey enters your body and heals you. i then think you have a chance for redemption…..to be forgiven of past sins. now that is just speculation lol
I agree with Wesley and Highbrow’s last 2 comments. That would also explain… the combover
Non of this would explain Ben getting Cancer…
Yeah fair points from highbrow and Wesley.
Thats pretty much the one thing i cant really explain (quite a big thing i know lol) but the fact that if they revert to a time where they havent got cancer how come theyre also younger etc
I still think that theres something in this Daniel Faradays experiments on the Rat where its mind goes back and not its body kind of spring to mind but im trying to think of a way to relate.
Can anyone explain btw, how your mind can go back but physically your body doesnt, and when the Losties were flicking through time was that their mind or was that physical time travel?