Whispers/Theories

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Time travel

• The whispers mark the activation of some kind of transportation device. Whenever the whispers are heard, somebody or something appears or disappears, seemingly without a trace. In the first few seasons, they always mark the appearance of the Others (who never seem to leave a trace). They are also heard when Jacob's cabin appears in front of Hurley. Most obviously, they are heard when Harper appears out of nowhere to Juliet, and again when she disappears. They also appear when young Ben's mother appears.
• The people who are travelling at different times on the Island can be heard by the people who live at that time, but in the shape of reversed audio and at very low volume caused by the time distortion between the Time Lines. In the Whisper transcripts it seems like the people conversating are trying to get in touch with the people they're watching but don't make contact.
• The "Whispers" are who ever is trying to "FIX" the Timeline. It sounds like they are in a Lab/Command Center(alarms, Intruder alert,...) where they are monitoring what is happening on the island. The female voice would like to "Interfere" with what is happening, while the male voice is the one that is content to observe what is happening. They are to watch what is happening and compare it to what is suppose to happen looking for differences in order to figure out how to "FIX" it.

Deceased People

• When People die on the island, they become part of the island, the whispers is the cumulative voices of the island and the people who died.
• In the whispers for "Sayid and Shannon in the Jungle", the whispers are able to predict that Shannon is about to die. Whats more, one party member says "Hi Sis" and "Meet me on the other side Shannon," therefore Boone, who was dead at the time, was one of the voices.
• In reading the whisper transcripts, what is said sounds as though they are being spoken by the spirits of dead people. They were aware of what was going on in the scene and spoke in reference to what was going on at the time, indicating the whispers weren't just random whispers from another time or another dimension or reality. This is what Miles hears, but because he is more adept at sensing spirits than most of the other people that have heard whispers, he understands what is being said better.
• One of the supernatural qualities of the island allows the deceased to remain on the island; either simply as a consciousness or as corporeal beings in a different dimension.
• Miles, who we know has some sort of supernatural ability to communicate with the dead, hears the whispers at the sight of Rousseau and Carl's death. He is the first person we see successfully attempt to understand / manipulate the whispers such that he knows where to find Rousseau and Carl's bodies.

Parallel worlds

• The whispers are bleed-through of different versions of the same events in parallel worlds (hence they seem to comment on what is happening): The island is a nexus where all these worlds meet.

When Juliet detonates the Jughead nuke at the Swan site, the explosion near the pocket of energy causes a splinter reality to form parallel to our own. The Losties hear alternate events as whispers, except for a few individuals who can actually see individuals from the other side (Jack sees Christian, Hurley sees Charlie, etc). This is what Charlie meant when he told Hurley "I'm dead and I am also here", because technically, it IS true: Charlie is dead in our universe but alive in the tangent one. This is also what Jacob means when he tells Hurley "what if you're not crazy" in reference to hearing whispers/ seeing ghosts.

The Monster

• The whispers are the collective consciousness of the dead, spoken by the Monster. The monster shows flashing images relating to a person's life (people, events);the whispers are the audio version of this
• The whispers are the souls of the deceased and unburied on the Island or underworld. The monster is a security system to keep them from interfering with the lives of the inhabitants of the Island.

The Others

• The whispers are coming from the Others.
• The whispers are simply an Others tactic to intimidate people and create a sense of mystery.
  • Some of the whispers are an Others tactic (what Ben said to Roussaue clearly indicates this), but some has an other, unknown, mysterous source (The Smoke Monster? The Island?).
• The survivors may be picking up stray thoughts from the Others; They discuss the 'losties' goodness.
• The whispers are the result of telepathic abilities possessed by the survivors or the Others.
• Rousseau claims that she has never seen The Others, but she heard them whisper. In Exodus she says that she heard The Others whispering "they were coming for the boy", which indeed they did, only it wasn't Aaron as she thought, but Walt. If Rousseau wasn't lying, this may be proof that The Others use the whispers as a mean of communication.

Non-corporeal beings

• It is possible that the Whispers are non-corporeal beings, they have no physical form, or that they were once 'people' but where able to rid themselves of their bodies, gaining a type of immortality. This my also explain why some of them want to reveal themselves to the people on the Island, as they might be trying to get a sense of what their life had once been, back when they had bodies, or (if they've always been non-corporeal) it could be an attempt to understand the existence of the corporeal beings, people.

Misc.

• The whispers are part of the unseen "darker threat".
• When the Others took a few men, as Nathan said, one was a German. This happened on the first night, it is him speaking German in the jungle. There was also German broadcast from the loudspeaker in the Swan during the episode "Lockdown".
• The Whispers are memories of certain people, or the subconscious thoughts of the people that are in the area when the whispers are heard.

Physical form

• While the whispers themselves seem to have some supernatural aspects, the people responsible for them often worry about being spotted or found, suggesting they have physical bodies on the island.
• The whispers are of the other inhabitants of the island as Lindelof and Cuse stated there are in Access:Granted, the electromagnetism of the island has altered them and changed them into psychic beings able to communicate throughout the island. When the whispers are slowed down and reversed we can sometimes hear them referring to being caught. This isn't "them" physically as two people talking but "them" as in the larger group of other inhabitants that have lived on the island since before Danielle and before the losties and before the hostiles/others and before Dharma came. They were responsible for building the temple and four toed statue and the pillar that Anthony Cooper was tied to. They communicate with the losties to try and warn them of impending danger, this is why the whispers are heard before bad things happen. Also these other inhabitants are responsible for projecting images of dead people. Jacob is mainly responsible for it because he is the leader of the other inhabitants and is being held captive by Ben, this is why he asked Locke to help him. His sole aim is to try and help the losties so that they can stop the others and free him. When the monster was affected by the electromagnetism it became overly aggressive and offensive and kills anyone who could bring harm to the other inhabitants.

The big picture

• Once the island reaches the date of the incident again, the island will be sent back in time again. All the Losties are trapped in this time loop, reliving their time on the Island over and over again, unknowingly. But some things happen differently each time, i.e. Christian Shephard being alive on the island. The whispers are the voices of people who have lived on the island during the time loop, things they have said at that exact time. “Visions” of people on the island, like the one Jack had of Christian, are really two people from different “cycles”, meeting each other.