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Originally Posted by Inazuma

Anyone else notice the 4th-wall breaking joke, where Sookie was reading a book by Charlaine Harris?

Originally Posted by wiki

Physical travel of both time and space

Confirmed non-human cases

On the two-way radio, Sayid and Hurley picked up a radio broadcast from the 1940s that played "Moonlight Serenade" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. ("The Long Con") ("Lost: A Journey in Time")

When Sayid, Frank and Desmond leave the Island in "The Constant", they and those on the island experience events in a different sequence, implying electromagnetic signals and a corpse travel through time. On the island, the Losties pull the body of the ship's doctor out of the water one morning. That evening, they contact the freighter by Morse code. On the freighter, Omar receives the Morse code message during the day, but the doctor's throat was slit at night and was thrown off the freighter at night.

In the Orchid orientation film, Dr. Edgar Halliwax talked of a how the Island's properties allow the DHARMA Initiative "to conduct unique experiments of both space and time". He placed rabbit number 15 inside a device he called the "vault", which was constructed adjacent to "negatively charged exotic matter". He explained how the rabbit would travel 100ms ahead of four dimensional spacetime - three consisting of space and one of time. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")

Another example was when Ben successfully moved the island. He accomplished this by placing metallic objects inside a chamber in the Orchid, something the orientation film had warned against, and blowing a hole through the wall of the chamber. This allowed him to access the frozen wheel. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")

Confirmed human cases




Ben turned the frozen wheel to move the Island, and time traveled 10 months into his future. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")



When Ben turned the frozen wheel December 31, 2004, ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") he found himself in the Sahara Desert 10 months later on October 24, 2005. ("The Shape of Things to Come") The result of the wheel being turned was that the survivors remaining on the Island randomly traveled through time until Locke put the wheel back on its axis, as he too flashed to the exit in the Sahara Desert; in his case, emerging three years later in 2007. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")

When the survivors left behind after Ben's wheel turning experienced a time travel change, there was a blinding purple flash (similar to when the Hatch imploded). After Locke fixed the wheel, there was one last flash, but this time the flash was bright white, rather than purple. In all instances, the travelers experienced severe head pain, most likely caused by the extremely loud noise occurring during the flashes.

People who weren't affected by the time travel appeared to be unaware of the blinding flash and loud noise. For example, Danielle didn't react to or mention the noise or light before Jin disappeared, and when he reappeared in her future, she thought Jin was sick because he disappeared ("This Place Is Death"). Ethan also did not react to the noise or light when it began, but kept the gun aimed level at Locke, and said "Goodbye, John Locke" ("Because You Left"). Desmond may have been the sole exception, as he appeared to react to both the noise and flash moments before Daniel disappeared in front of him. ("Because You Left")