Motorpsycho Lost Dream

Ok, normally I don't post anything on this blog that I haven't done some serious thinking about. If I expect you to spend your time reading something, it should be ideas carefully considered, and not necessarily "off the cuff."

But after last week's show, I had a dream. It was one of those long, drawn out ones that are really intense and highly memorable. And it was all about Lost. In it, I was basically watching the final episode, and the major secret of the show was revealed. I've decided to go ahead and share that dream with you now. So if you're into the more serious-minded philosophical musings with actual thought and merit, you can stop right here. If you're interested in hearing about a crazy dream with no logic whatsoever, but still may contain answers to the show's questions, keep reading, you've been warned.

Ok, I need to start by saying that even though I was dreaming this, I wasn't actually in it, I was just watching it, like watching the show.

The first scene (of the final episode) opens up on a boat, about the size of Desmond and Penny's clipper. On the boat is Juliet and Locke, and maybe a couple other Losties. They're out at sea, in an area that resembles the Caribbean, where clear shallow water goes on for miles and miles. They have something incredibly important on board, and they have to protect it. They're constantly on the watch for anyone following.



We never actually see what they're protecting. It's about the same size as J.J. Abrams' mystery box, and kept hidden deep in the hold of the boat throughout.

There's another smaller boat that they're towing, and Juliet (armed with a serious machine gun) goes out on her own on it to do some reconnaissance. Soon she realizes that they're being followed, and quickly makes her way back to the larger boat. But even as she gets there, she sees scuba divers circling the larger boat, coming in to attack. She warns Locke, and begins firing into the water. In a panic, she points the gun into hold of the main boat, intending to fire. She wants to destroy the Important Mystery Object. She tells Locke that it's better to destroy it than to have it fall into the wrong hands. Too many lives have been lost, too much has gone wrong in the past, we have to just give up and destroy it. Locke does what he can to convince her NOT to shoot, and get her to focus back on the people that are currently trying to attack the boat.



Locke, Juliet, and the others on the boat are able to stop the people who are after the object. They capture them, tie them up and interrogate them about what they know and why they're there. Turns out, they're not so evil. They're all young kids - college students who have been trying to find this thing so they can study it. They don't have evil intentions, they're simply there to learn. Locke feels vilified and Juliet is only somewhat relieved that she didn't destroy the thing. Locke says that they have to come up with another solution.

CUT TO...

A significant amount of time has passed, but we're still roughly in the same location. We can see underwater the base of a small coral reef rising up into an atoll. Part of the reef is submerged, part of it is above water, and rises like a small gentle spiral out of the water. Scuba divers are coming out of the water and getting onto the boat, where Locke and Juliet are standing. We realize that they've buried and hidden the mystery object somewhere in this atoll, hoping that no one will know where to look, even if they knew of this location.

The episode is almost over. They're preparing to say goodbye. As they're pulling up the anchor, they're still looking out over the atoll, at the little bit of reef sticking out of the water, and Locke points, and says to Juliet, "look, you can see it already growing." The camera goes closer, and you can see small leaves of grass multiplying and roots slightly swelling. This mystery object that they planted is now causing a new island to be born.



And here's the part of the dream where nothing happens visually, but I suddenly GET IT. I suddenly understand what the island is. It is an alien life form. A conscious and self-aware alien being that expresses itself by organically causing an island to be grown. It communicates to people psychically, and protects those that protect it. And an alien race (four toes) used to live on it and protect it.

But it was just a dream.