The latest LOST theory is solipsism.

It really pains me to have to write this, but after the LOST season 3 finale there is really only one theory left that explains everything that has happened so far. Everything that has happened on this show has all been a figment of Ben's imagination! Yes, that's correct. The entire show has been one long hallucination by a single highly deranged character.

The primary evidence comes almost entirely from season 3:

• As stated by Ben himself, "Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. And if that's not proof of God, I don't know what is."



• After his spinal surgery, Ben wishes that someone would destroy his submarine to prevent Jack and Juliet from leaving the island by that means. Nine days later, Lock blows up the submarine only moments before Jack and Juliet were due to board it to leave the island. Ben declares that this is "a dream come true".



• Ben's mother died giving birth to Ben when in her seventh month of pregnancy. Now Ben lives on the one little place on the whole planet where all of the pregnant women on the island die just before reaching their third trimester.



• There's an invisible man living on the island that only Ben can see or talk to.



• Ben, who desperately wants to prevent contact with the outside world, almost manages to see the satellite phone destroyed or captured, but Locke at the last possible moment refrains from killing Jack in order to secure it.

There is some indirect evidence that also supports a theory that everything is a figment of Ben's imagination. A lot of speculation has swirled around the infamous LOST "flash forward" in the season 3 finale which portrays Jack as a drunk and a drug addict and Kate as a beautiful, wealthy, and seemingly presidentially pardoned woman that despises and/or pities him. But we know that Ben (a) is seeing his worst nightmatre -- his precious island careening into some disastrous fate -- come true because Jack defeated his plans;(b) has been beaten (both literally and metaphorically) by Jack in the past; (c) was humiliated in the way he was forced (by Jack) to reveal to Alexandra the identity of her mother; and (d) knows that Jack loves Kate, and probably vice versa. So it's isn't very surprising that Ben might imagine that Jack eventually becomes a drunk, loveless, brain-damaged, pathetic junkie who could have lived a perfectly wonderful life if only he had done what Ben had wanted him to do.