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The original was posted on /r/outerwilds by /u/MaskOfIce42 on 2023-10-05 13:11:26.

So I was thinking about the owlks in Echoes of the Eye and how they’re all dead in the real world, only living on in the dream world. Initially, I’d assumed they just died because they were in there too long. However, then I realized that they had to still be alive when the prisoner turned off the signal blocking the eye of the universe in order to build his prison.

Where this got interesting was how this relates to the Nomai. I think it’s a safe assumption that they had been blocking the eye of the universe for a long time, since it was implied that the Nomai had been around for a while when they picked up the signal. So clearly they’d been living a long time in the dream world before.

So the question was, do you think that the owlks just live a really long time, or do you think that along with the simulation, they also created something that keeps them alive in the real world for an extended period of time. I was talking with a friend, and he proposed that they could’ve only died when the interloper came, since ghost matter clearly made it on board the stranger, which makes sense to me. Wanted to get you guys take, see if maybe I was forgetting some lore aspect that shed further light on this.