Fan theories

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Fanon
(Fan created content. Distinct from hoaxes and parodies)

Since there are numerous theories on what's going on on that island in general, this article provides a recap of some of these theories. If you post here, please keep the format (Description, Pros, Cons) and try to stick to general theories (Theories about single persons, items, locations have their place in the according articles). If you don't, nobody will be able to read this article soon...

• Doomsday Weapon Project under the Facade of a Civilian Scientific Mission
• The survivors are in Purgatory or somehow "between places"
• The whole island is an ongoing social experiment
• It is a Virtual Reality/(guided) Dreamstate or shared Hallucination
• They are in an artificial environment
• The Survivors are the last remnants of humanity
• Scientific Experiment that accidentally opened a Mystical Pandora's Box
• The Survivors have landed on an island that used to be Atlantis or Lemuria
• The Tempest Theory
• The Christmas Theory
• The Rapture Theory
• They are in “Dreamtime”
• They signed up for it
• The survivors are clones
• The Y2K Theory
• Every event happens as depicted (realism)