Originally posted by: FreshPrince
ok, how about this:
the losties must be in some kind of matrix/virtual reality world experiment
1. richard and all other island natives never age - they are actually VR programs, they are there to influence decisions
2. patches dying and then comes back alive - VR programs cannot die and they can be rebooted
3. polar bear/black smoke - VR programs used to purge bad elements or viruses. why else would there be a polar bear on a tropical island? or black smoke that goes around killing people
4. walt is the neo of this virtual reality world. he has the capability to conjure things out of thin air and make things happen with his mind. how else would a normal human be able to do this in the real world?
5. jacob can/cannot be seen. Jacob is a virtual program. VR programs can run in present or hidden mode.
6. ben is not of the VR world, he is human. he is unpredictable.
7. Darma put their own people in the VR world to test/experiment how humans would co-exist in this world with the programs. VR programs prove to have outsmarted the Darma agents and used one of their own children to destroy the entire human vr experiment subjects.
8. losties are the new group of humans Darma placed in the VR world. they are more unpredictable individuals and are proving to be more of a challenge for the VR programs.
9. VR programs are stealing human pregnant subjects to learn how the reproductive process works. these programs are trying to spawn their own offsprings without success so far.
10. typing in the numbers every 15 minutes is a security measure, kinda like a firewall. now that locke let it blow up, the virtual world's firewall security is down, which makes this world vulnerable to intrusions from other virtual worlds.
11. the reason the island natives (VR programs) know everything about the losties is because each human put inside the VR world experiment has a file in the database. the VR programs somehow has a way to obtain this information from the database.
12. humans can take on new physical and mental forms in the VR world. which is why locke, a cripple in the real world, can walk in the virtual world.
this is my new theory about LOST