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Okay. Whether it is called limbo or the afterlife, what was called the flash sideways was in actuality after every characters death, which is why i am calling it the after life. Because whether you believe in limbo or that there is a place of waiting between the two is not sort of important. Either way this place is in the future of all of the characters on the show. Their future after death. Like you said some people died right away like Jack or died before like Charley or died long after like Hurley, but everyone dies. Once you die you are outside of time and in this place of waiting where they are all together.
I think it makes sense that Desmond’s mind did go to the after life because he was at such peace. I know it was never shown on screen, but the only thing that makes sense to me is that Desmond went into that machine and that took his mind to the limbo/place of waiting and he felt them all be at peace because from that moment on Desmond was no longer worried about anything. He knew that no matter what happened that eventually they would be there together.