Mirrors!
Mirrors in a dream are supposed to represent the following:
"In dreams, mirrors can reflect directly, reflect with additions or deletions, or serve as a doorway into another reality as in ALICE IN WONDERLAND. The mirror is troubling because it reveals plainly what is before us, forcing us to interpret and evaluate whether or not we like what we see.
If the mirror is inconsistent by adding or deleting certain elements it is a projection of perceptive versus actual reality. In this case the dream may be a herald that you are misinterpreting the motives of others by not accepting them at face value. (Who or what is being added or deleted from the mirror?)
Finally, the mirror as a doorway to another world is usually a fantasy created by the subconscious. As Alice discovered when she went through the looking glass, the mirror is a metaphor of possible worlds. Does your dream mirror function as a gate or access out of one boundary and into another possible world? What is more desirable or more threatening about that world? "
Much more on mirrors and dreams found here:
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/
And doesn't that all fit the way we've seen mirrors used in LOST? Mirrors are used over and over again to convey ideas or questions in LOST land. Last week's episode, The Substitute, showed Locke looking into a mirror and deciding to call Jack Shepherd, spinal surgeon. Of course, that doesn't come to pass, but still, that mirror-gazing induced a deciding moment for the character of Locke. That happens a lot on this show, so much so that I think mirrors are significant. It seems this episode really brings that home for us.
Wasn't the lighthouse fascinating? I loved it, but we didn't get enough time looking at it. But when you saw it, weren't you filled with a sense of hope? I was. But I was so annoyed that when Jack and Hurley got to the Lighthouse and Jack got so bent out of shape because he believed he had been watched and manipulated all his life that he smashed the glass before we could see all the little names around the stone wheel. I also wanted to see what else was "viewable" through that lighthouse lens and read all the names. We know there were 360 names in total (360 degrees), but who were they? Kate's name is still there, I noticed as I'm sure everyone else did, too.
But Jacob wasn't upset when Jack in effect killed his lighthouse. Could it be that he got him all emotionally revved up to do just that? Remember when Hurley was worried Jack wouldn't come along with him on his lighthouse mission, Jacob told Hurley to tell Jack "he had what it takes"? You recall that a reverse of this phrase is what made Jack so unhappy with his father Christian who told him "You don't have what it takes." It totally triggers Jack's Daddy Issues.
I have lots of ideas about what the lighthouse is and does, but basically, I don't think it allowed Jacob to spy on people, but to beckon 360 individuals to the island at different times. Just the way a real lighthouse would function: light and guide the way to port, help navigate dangerous obstacles and to get a ship safely to where they are going. Wonder why it didn't work for the ship, "The Black Rock"? Richard was supposed to have been on that ship and he became Jacob's right-hand man.
This makes me wonder about how former prisoners become allies at a later point in this show. It seems that is how sometimes the most loyal servants are formed--as maybe in the case of Richard, who has been supposed to have been a chained slave on the ship. Who freed him? Maybe that is what Locke meant when he said it was good to see Richard out of those chains. I think that prisoners becoming allies is a theme in one of the books shown being read on this show, but I can't bring it to mind at the moment.
I also had a wild random thought when watching the show, which was the song by Iron Maiden, " Dream Mirror" from their Dance of Death 2003 album:
Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...?
A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening?
Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind
All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination? I just can't take no more
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
Think I've heard your voice before, think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream? is this a new reality
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind
All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Coming to the realization that I can't see for sure
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, please save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
I get up put on the light, dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate, nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head
Dread to think what might be stirring, that my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting, saving me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
Lost in a dream of mirrors, lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning, lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit, lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence, lost a nightmare I retrace
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
Gee . . . I am wondering if this is all a dream. Remember the posters in the background when Locke was talking to the temp agency worker? They said things like "Live Your Dream Job" and another one had "DREAM" in big letters on it, but I couldn't make out the rest of the text. That would be a real rip-off. But like in the book "The Four Agreements," Toltec wisdom supposes we are living in a dream and only by tuning out the distractions can we see reality. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.
Okay, back to more of what I noticed in this episode -- Egyptian symbols:
These symbols appear throughout the series of LOST and I remember them distinctly in the counter which kept time in the HATCH. Remember when it blew up and all those Egyptian symbols against a red background turned up? Now Hurley is supposed to use Egyptian symbols that Jacob gave him to find the secret passageway out of the Temple . . . I didn't get to see a close-up of this shot to know whether Hurley's list of symbols might have matched those on the Hatch counter, but wouldn't that be cool?
We also see the Egyptian Big foot temple (yes, I know it has a name, but I'm too lazy to look it up) where Jacob was apparently weaving a large tapestry full of Egyptian symbols. What does it all mean? Is Jacob a dream weaver using his tapestry to manipulate the realities of those he chooses? I wonder what the connection could be between Egyptians and dreams, but like the name of the Temple of the Big Foot, I'll look that up sometime later.
[It's Tawaret]
I also noticed that beautiful Clair is looking more and more like crazy Rousseau all the time. Never more clear than when she tosses that rifle back over her shoulder. When Rousseau met Sayid, he had become caught in one of her traps guarding her camp. She took him back there where she held him prisoner and shocked and tortured him. Sayid learned that her baby was stolen by Ben Linus and The Others. In "Lighthouse," Jin is also caught in a trap made by Clair and is taken back to her camp and learns that Clair also believes her baby was taken by the Others. Can torture be next for poor Jin? Clair, like Rousseau, seems to enjoy the Ka-Boom that goes with lighting a stick of dynamite, so maybe she will just light his fire. But that's not what happened to Sayid so it probably won't happen to Jin.
I do get a little tired of hearing Clair talk now, which is something I didn't experience when she was a gentle soul on the beach with the original LOSTIES. Maybe it is just a mad Australian talking that I don't like. Every time I now hear Clair wail and moan in her thick Australian accent about her missing child, I have to turn to Pat and say, "But the dingos ate my bay-bee." He laughs. But he's kind like that.
But Clair turned crazy by the loss of her child made me wonder if Clair wasn't fulfilling some quota. Clair was described in the recap of LOST that opened this season as "single mother-to-be" which is what Rousseau was when she came to the island with her scientific team (who subsequently became infected, as Clair is supposed to be). I wonder what we're supposed to make from that introduction of survivors of the island. The Doctor, The Con Man, The Fugitive, The Man Who Lost His Faith, etc. (mentioned in my previous note) are all set forth as just characters. Are these archetypes we should notice? Are they constants that have to be in place for some event to occur?
Remember Farraday said he was so busy looking at the variables, he forgot to look at the constants. Are these archetypes or characters some of the constants?
Clair mentioned being told about the theft of her bay-bee by her father (Christian) and her friend (which turned out to be the MIB, Fake Locke). I think this helps us figure out that Christian definitely was claimed by the MIB when his body arrived on the Island. Which then leads me to think about every time I've seen Christian on the Island. Was he always pointing someone in the wrong direction? I'm not sure. I don't have every LOST episode memorized and I've only seen most of them once, but I do know that Christian led Jack to the caves where the two skeletons were found, and this was mentioned again in this latest episode in a conversation between Hurley and Jack. I'm glad to see the two skeletons mentioned as I know we've all been speculating about who they might be since the first time we laid eyes on them.
Christian is also the one who got Locke to turn the wheel that supposedly kept the island from flashing through time and got Locke back into the real world. We know now he needed Locke to die off the island and then come back to it so he could possess his body and use it to influence the LOSTIES who knew him and would trust Locke the man.
I will have to do more research about where Christian was and who and what he influenced.
Oh, and did anybody think that Jack's kid looked like Kate? But where would she be if she is his mother? Jack says she is out of town, but for how long and why? We know in the Sideways Flash she is on the run, so why wouldn't they be talking about her if she was in trouble and she was Jack's wife and the kid's mother? Maybe she left them--like she did her family in the pre-815 flight. Remember the cop she married and then abandoned because she was on the run? Maybe in this sideways time flash, Kate is truly innocent. Remember she asked Clair in the hospital if she would believe her if she told her she was innocent?
I was thinking at the time, "Yeah, right!" But maybe she is.
And the Jack's kid was also reading "The Annotated Alice in Wonderland," (see mirrors in dreams above) another literary reference we shouldn't ignore. I don't know about you, but sometimes when I watch this show, I feel like I've been sucked down the white rabbit whole and landed in an alternate universe.
And one last thought: Was Desmond in a photo behind Rose's desk? What's up with that? I think Desmond must be represented by the 108 degree that Jack and Hurley were supposed to turn the lighthouse mirrors toward, to call him there. So, I think the Island really isn't finished with Desmond yet.
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Postscript:
http://www.theosophy-nw.or
When I did little quick research on Egyptian Book of the Dead+mirrors, this came up. Candidates and everything!!!!
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Maybe Tawaret was put there to enable mother's to have babies on the Island . . . maybe that has always been an issue and the statue was put there to protect the unborn babies. I've said before that I am not an expert on all the episodes, many of them I've only seen once, but I think the only babies born on the island that we've seen are Alex (Rousseau's daughter), Aaron and the Kwon's baby and Ben Linus, of course, but his birth killed his mother.. Alex was murdered by Widmore's men and Aaron and the Kwon child are back "in the world." So there is no child born on the Island that is still living there.
I don't know if I am ready to commit myself to LOST being about Egyptian mythology any more than I can hang my hat on the Greek mythology, but so many different cultural elements are on display, you can't help but think LOST is a combination of all their similar elements. Or maybe the effort of all of these different cultures to deal with the Island and its mystical properties?
I don't know if I am ready to commit myself to LOST being about Egyptian mythology any more than I can hang my hat on the Greek mythology, but so many different cultural elements are on display, you can't help but think LOST is a combination of all their similar elements. Or maybe the effort of all of these different cultures to deal with the Island and its mystical properties?
But I remembered that when Ben Linus crept into Widmore's bedroom as he slept in a past episode, they also talked about The Rules. Widmore asks if he came to kill him and he tells him that he knows he cannot (because of The Rules, we assume). He goes on to blame Widmore for the death of his daughter (at the hands of Widmore's soldiers), but Widmore will have none of the blame and says it is Ben's fault. Then Ben tells him he will kill his daughter Penelope and Widmore will be sorry that he changed the rules.
It seems like The Rules are fluid and can change depend on the last move by any "player". So, Widmore's agents killed Ben's daughter, that makes it fair for Ben to kill Widmore's daughter.
Think about Widmore being forced off the island by Ben because he "broke the rules," i.e., leaving the island and having a daughter with an outsider. Then Ben broke the rules by coming back to the Island. It almost seems that each side (black/white) has a move coming to them based on the last move made by the other character.
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