[D-Roc]

Time to update my thoughts before I see the season 4 finale.

This theory currently holds firm - the idea that time is not linear as we often 'perceive' it to be.

Daniel's payload in episode 3 (I think) of season 4 helped to illustrate this notion. As did Doctor Ray washing up dead on the island long before Martin Keamy had slit his throat and killed him.

Interesting observation. Note how Doctor Ray's dead body was able (allowed?) to propagate towards the island, yet the freighter is simply unable to find it's exact location - even Naomi wasn't sure that she'd reach the island, yet a 'dead' body is seemingly allowed access. No coincidence considering the role sprits and manifestations play in this show.

Desmond's time-travelling in The Constant was another demonstration of time not bieng linear - Des was in two places at once..or rather his conscious perception was.

It begs the question of where we go when we dream - a device brought back into play recently with Ben's "I used to have dreams" as locke had received another crumb from the island. The consciousness can exist in two, if not more, places at one time - this further suggests that time on Lost is not one direction nor one sequence nor one thing..time on Lost is simply un/conscious perception.

Add to this the possibility that Locke has lived this life many times, as indicated in Cabin Fever with Alpert's "Which of these belongs to you already", suggesting that Locke had already existed in some form before (although I do accept the reincarnation theory - which can also tie-in to this notion).

so with the passing of time - as if time actually passes. It doesn't we perceive it's relative length depending on many things including variables which we all perceive differently (hence the value of clocks, the central bank of human time) - comes diminishing memory. Displayed possibly by young Locke (Cabin Fever) who couldn't remember which item was his already, and the likes of Desmond after his time travelling in The Constant. Oh, and we shouldn't forget Faraday - his is very much about of the 'time' element of the show.

I want to begin bringing the flash-forwards into this at somepoint, as I think they're a device which could further corroborate the notions described and presented in this theory.