[D-Roc]

We'll probably have to count the dreams as being a seperate device from the visions and manifestations then. I guess that would actually make sense, seeing as dreams operate on a different threshold of conciousness than 'visions' - which happen when one is conscious.

With that said perhaps dreams are more open to invasions from the living and the dead, whereas waking sightings are purely the island reanimating as the dead? Is it accurate to suggest that all 'waking-sightings' (manifestations/visions) have been of the dead - with the exception of Walt in "Curtain"?

ILWL - yeah, it could be Claire's soul or a manifestation of her i guess..the thing that makes me lean towards there being some actual remnant of 'Claire' there is the fact that she was 'chilling' in Jacob's shack with Christian..I'm not sure that the island manifest as her in that situation..it wasn't really needed..so perhaps it was actually the living Claire or her spirit in the shack/at Kate's house..and not the island?

All very confusing but interesting. Claire, interesting..never saw it coming tbh.