ISLAND AS THE MAIN CHARACTER

There is a theory about LOST which is beyond Oz. It states that the whole series experience was centered solely on the main character, the Island, as an intelligent life form.

As an intelligent life form, it would be alive. It would have basic instincts. It could have feelings, emotions and needs.

If the Island was a life form, it would need some kind of food source in order to sustain its metabolic functions. Was the Island's jungle its hair? Was the soil and rocks its skin? Or was the Island more metaphysical than actually a physical shape.

I believe life can be summed up simply as "the acquisition, storage and consumption of energy."  That is what every living thing on Earth does on a daily basis. The means of energy consumption may different (plants with photosynthesis; animals with digesting plants or proteins).

So if we look at the perspective that the Island is the main character in the series, how does it view the human beings running around its outer shell?  Many animals need "parasitic" animals to help keep one clean or healthy. Many humans and animals feed off "domesticated" lower life forms.

The island characters used the resources available to build structures, to run utility lines, to inhabit the place. What would the Island gain by such activities. The human activities on the island could "stimulate" sensory attributes of the Island creature. We know that the Island can show anger and emotion via the Smoke Monster attacks. Are those attacks on humans like man milking cows for an energy source, i.e. the Island creating strong human emotions is what gives it emotional energy which it needs to survive?

And what defenses does the Island creature have at its disposal? It could time travel. It could disappear in the blink of an eye. Whether that is a physical transformation or bending light into a stealth situation is unknown.

What is the waste byproduct of the Island creature living on Earth? The light in the cave could be a direct result of the Island taking raw emotions of human inhabitants and taking that spiritual energy and transform it into the unique electromagnetic properties of the island. The light or special EM was said to be "life, death, and rebirth."

For if the purpose of the creature is to digest emotions to produce a life force of special EM, is that more like a machine process than a living organism process? Scientists believe that humans are really just biochemical factories that take in elements, transform them, absorb energy produced from reactions, and expel chemically altered waste materials.

Since the creature would feed off emotions, it could have the ability to read human minds, memories, and dreams. Since it can transform energy into matter (Smoke Monster into Flocke), it is possible that the Island creature could have created the sideways world as a subconscious holding tank for the human souls until they physically expired in its island domain. Is the sideways world the recycling bin for human spiritual emotions?

This theory is hard to grasp because the Island as a creature never showed its true form. It did not reveal itself as being anything but a magical place.