Originally Posted by chickenpotpiesarehot

I think it went just slightly off the bearing that Daniel warned them to take and they ended up at a time a few years before the crash of Oceanic 816. But only a couple of years off, or maybe only months?? Sayid and Desmond aren't known to be survivors of Oceanic 815 because that crash hasn't even happened yet! Their existence back in the real world is kept secret. Possibly Lapidus and Desmond die because they get too close to the version of themselves that exist naturally in that time period (like the rabbits in the Orchid video???). So what if the Ben that Sayid works for is a Ben from a slightly earlier time period than the Oceanic 6's time period off the island?