In the first episode of the second season Shannon "hallucinated" walt. He was talking backwards and was saying "don't press the button" Maybe he's recieving some kind of signals through his powers from Dharma, maybe they don't want the hatch to be opened so the projects go undisturbed?

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I think people are putting a lot more on Walt then probable. I don't think it's really Walt that Shannon was seeing. Shannon was thinking a lot about Walt to begin with because Walt asked Shannon to watch his dog, therefore giving her the only real "responsibility" that shes had on the whole island. As you saw in her flashback episode, most of her life was just getting what she needed when she needed it so having this new responsibility she didn't want to fail Walt, the only person up to this point who semi-believed that she could be useful. The stress and anxiety of Walt made the island show Walt to her through hallucinations, much like Jack's father was shown to him.

I don't think Walt has any special powers or was the complete cause of the plane crash and everyone else is just random unlucky fellow passengers. Everyone is there for a specific reason, not just because Walt was some experiment test.

how is that possible when there is audio of walt warning shannon? so I don't think it was in her head at all.

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I'm not saying it is in Shannon's head. The Island is what is showing the hallucinations. Not the individual people. The Island shows them whats in their mind.

Eh, maybe but im going with walt actually being there

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Locke: It\'s never been easy.

agreed.

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In the third episode, Michael and Walt get into an argument about finding Vincent. Michael tells Walt he will find Vincent the minute it stops raining. Walt says he won't, Michael insisted he would. The rain stopped and Walt didn't blink an eye. Walt is a key component in this mystery - I wonder if his moving around all the time has anything to do with his "special powers"? Thoughts?

Well, if moving around a lot gives you mind powers, I should be more powerful than Walt. I've been to more countries than that little boy, although I did most of my travelling by his age. Anyway, I still think you all are on to something.

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But Sayid saw Walt as well. I'm all for the idea of the island producing hallucinations, but for two people to see the exact same hallucination is rather unlikely. Sayid was a skeptic and didn't even believe Shannon so you may say, "well, she planted the seed in Sayid's head into seeing Walt." Well that may be, but the fact that they can both perceive the same hallucination is a bit far-fetched to me. Again, just an opinon.

I just think it's interesting how Dharma must have been involved in the lives of many of the castaways (maybe all of them) before they crashed on the island, not just Walt. There's Hurley and the numbers, Kate and the black horse (she saw it right after the car crash, before the plane crash), and I'm sure there are others we will find out about later. I think Dharma has been secretly experimenting on all of them for quite some time, and they have now decided to bring them all in to the island together for some reason.

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