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• The Island brought Dave to the island like it brought Cooper to Locke.
  • Cooper was real but Dave was not as (it seems).
    • It has been shown that the island is able to see into the inhabitants minds and brings its Victims worst nightmare to life. For Locke it was his father, for Mr. Eko it was Yemi judging him and each time it was some kind of test, so for Hurley it was his Imaginary friend Dave.
• Dave is of the same nature as Charlie when Charlies appeared to Hurley. Dave is actually a deceased Dharma Initiative member or a deceased other who is being used by the island to communicate to Hurley in the same way that Charlie communicates after his death. Dave committed suicide on the island by throwing himself off the cliff before the Losties arrived. He repeats his jump in front of Hurley in the same way that Horace repeats cutting down the trees and talking to John Locke in "Cabin Fever".
• Dave is a real (dead) person who Hurley can see, just like his friends from the island, because he is special like Miles. He was just convinced he's crazy by his family and doctors who assumed he was just seeing things. Dave was a former patient who died at the institution...possibly killed in a conflict with staff. He seemed to have a mean streak to him (always trying to get Hurley to do bad things, getting him into trouble, talking him into eating more, etc.) and was using Hurley as a means to entertainment as he is the only person who can see him.

Possible references to mindf*** movies

• The Island, not Hurley's subconscious, makes Dave appear.
  • This would be similar to the book and films Solaris. Solaris takes place in a space station which is similar to The Swan, and its main character is called Kelvin, just like Desmond's predecessor there. The purpose of the station is to observe a planet that has the power to make characters from the peoples' memory (and possibly from their imagination) come physically alive.
• The scene towards the end where Dave is trying to convince Hurley to jump off the cliff and "kill" himself in order to wake up, is similar to "Tech Support" telling César to jump off the skyscraper at the end of Abre los ojos, and it's American remake : Vanilla Sky

• A similar premise can be found in other mindf*** movies such as Stay and The Matrix.

• In 2001 and 2010, Dave is the nickname of David Bowman, an astronaut in route to Jupiter (Saturn in the novels) to (unknowingly) seek out for a giant black monolith. SPOILER WARNING : it is told by Clarke in the third novel, 2061 : Odyssey three, that the monoliths are actually space probes intended to modify life parameters on several planets (three confirmed). Those probes are described are IAs. In 2010, the movie, we can see Bowman acting like a ghost, including sending messages without ID. It asks the team of astronauts to leave Europe in order to let "something wonderful" to happen. This resembles the goal of the Hanso foundation.

Dave was Libby's Husband

• Libby, who was revealed to be in the same institution as Hurley, tells Desmond she had a husband named David.
  • This goes with the theory that Dave is a real dead person, and Hurley is able to see ghosts. Perhaps Dave and Libby met at the institution. It should be noted that Dave harasses Hurley, whos love interest is Libby.
• Dead Dave might have followed Libby to the mental hospital and became friends with Hurley because he was the onlt one that could see him.
  • However this doesn't explain why Dave would want Hurley to ignore his diet and not try to get better.
    • Doesn't it? If Dave can only stay around his widow (since he only appears in Santa Rosa and on the Island once Libby arrives) and Hurley is the only one to see him and thus keep him company, it would make sense for him to aggravate Hurley's mental problem (his guilt over his weight) to prevent his only companion from leaving.

On the Island, Dave is the smoke monster

• The smoke monster has appeared in several forms, such as spiders and the deceased, in order to pass judgement. If Hurley had not allowed himself the self confidence to think that Libby would like him, or to know that what was happening was not a dream then he would have killed himself on the cliff. He passed because he believed Libby.