Are we pawns in a JJ Abrams experiment?

I’m stuck on an island with a bunch of people I don’t know, and there’s a big black cloud monster preventing us from leaving. Some people want to get off as quickly as possible, no matter what it takes. A few have decided to stay — they believe they were mean to stay on the island and are taking up residence in empty houses and people’s couches. Most are sticking together in clusters — ultimately, there’s power in numbers and maybe it’s better to be in it together than to go at it alone. People are starting to form alliances and choose who they should let on their boat, whom they should reveal intel to about what they believe is the best way to get home, no matter how abstract and uncertain that belief may actually be. Some of us are slowly starting to realize that we don’t really want to leave the island. And all of us are forming an indelible bond that nobody outside the crisis zone really seems to understand.

I started making the analogy to Lost in my head a couple of days ago, and ever since then my travel partner thinks I have just been making myself think that this scenario is a lot like the one in Lost. Is my real life being influenced by a TV show or is JJ Abrams a prophet of human behavior? This whole experience has been so surreal that I can’t really tell anymore. – LK