I have an odd Obsession theory that may be legit

Though I haven't watched the film and have only heard of it.

Once upon a time, a man named Toby had a wife and lover named Samantha. When Samantha died, she went to Heaven. While God was helping her get settled into the mansion He had prepared for her, Toby was left grieving on Earth.

In his grief, Toby turned to a demonic spirit named Ti'lak, whom he knew from his time practicing Wicca. He begged the demon to resurrect Samantha so that her soul could return to her body and she could be with him again.

But it did not work the way Toby expected.

The problem was that Ti'lak could not bring a soul back from Heaven. He was not even allowed into Heaven because of what had gotten him cast out in the first place. As a result, he could not return Samantha's spirit or soul to her body.

Instead, he animated the body itself.

He jump-started the brain and restored bodily functions, but he never returned Samantha's soul. Her spirit remained in Heaven, completely separate from what Toby now saw walking around before him.

The body retained all of Samantha's memories, but its behavior was strange. It acted almost like an alien trying to imitate a human being. It knew it was Samantha, remembered Samantha's life, and possessed Samantha's memories, yet its mannerisms, body language, and behavior felt fundamentally wrong.

Despite being soulless, the body operated with its own agency.

In reality, Toby was spending time with a body that had been separated from its soul—a desouled, dispirited body. It functioned similarly to how an atheist might imagine a human body functioning: as a purely physical organism acting independently.

Within the story's universe, however, this was abnormal. Every other human being possessed a body, soul, and spirit working together. The soul served as the source of life and consciousness. This was the only body that no longer functioned that way.

What does this have to do with Obsession?

Technically, Ti'lak was animating a dead body—something akin to Frankenstein's monster, though without combining multiple corpses.

That led me to wonder whether the wish in Obsession might operate in a similar way.

What do I mean?

I had a theory that I discussed with God during prayer. The theory came from something the actress said about Nikki. According to her, Nikki was simultaneously experiencing something similar to locked-in syndrome and a form of teleportation where she would pop in and out of her own body. Nikki could see through her body's eyes without fully controlling it, yet she could also seemingly teleport in and out of it. The actress Inde and Curry Barker decided to blend both concepts together.

This raises a question:

What is Nikki's body is acting without her agency?

What if the body behaves as though it loves Bear when Nikki herself does not?

When characters say, "This is a new being that you brought into existence, and you're responsible for it," I wonder whether the wish responded not only to Bear's words but also to Bear's beliefs.

My theory is that Bear began as an atheist. Since atheists generally do not believe in souls or spirits, Bear viewed Nikki as purely physical.

The problem is that Nikki's behavior makes little sense otherwise. The only alternative explanation would be that Nikki was misidentifying her own actions as someone else's because she loved Bear excessively leading to abnormal behavior. However, that conflicts with the actress's explanation that Nikki was teleporting in and out of her body.

Furthermore, why would loving someone more than anything else lead a person to harm themselves? It would not and the only way it would be is that person viewed that as how you show someone you love them or saw that as what the other person needed, not just wanted, in a deeply unhealthy, self-destructive, and distorted way.

This is why the sleeping scene stands out to me.

Nikki says, "She's asleep. Kill me."

Bear responds, "Is it so bad being with me?"

Nikki answers, "I've never been with you, Bear."

That exchange is strange because Nikki claims Freaky Nikki is asleep while simultaneously speaking through the SLEEPING body.

If the body of Nikki is truly asleep, then who is speaking?

It seems as though the body's biological rhythms are functioning independently & Nikki's spirit is no longer synchronized with her physical form.

If souls and spirits exist in this universe, then when a person sleeps, their soul should not remain fully conscious and active while the body rests. The body, mind, spirit, and soul should function together as they do with Bear.

That interconnectedness is why the bedroom scene feels unnatural. Bear's body sleeps, and his soul literally sleeps with it. Nikki's body sleeps, and her soul is still awake.

The spirit of Nikki should have been asleep if her body was asleep like Bear's case.

Because of this, I theorize that the wish interpreted Bear's request according to Bear's worldview.

If a Christian version of Bear had made the wish, perhaps the body, soul, and spirit would all have fallen in love with Bear together.

But if Bear was an atheist, then the wish may have operated on the assumption that Nikki consisted only of her physical body.

Under that interpretation, the wish ignored Nikki's soul and spirit entirely.

It acted only upon the body.

The being created by the wish would therefore be Nikki's body, animated independently of the soul that originally gave it life.

In this theory, the wish effectively removed Nikki's soul and spirit, rewired the body, in such a way that it granted the brain an independent consciousness so it could function according to Bear's understanding of reality.

The result would be horrifying.

Nikki would lose agency because her body would gain agency.

Her spirit would become disconnected while her physical form developed an independent will and Bear doesn't believe in that connection ever existing..

This would explain why Nikki sometimes appears detached from her own body, why the body behaves in ways she does not recognize, and why she repeatedly insists, "That's not me."

Technically, it would be her body.

But it would no longer be entirely her.

The body would possess Nikki's memories, habits, and physical form, yet it would operate independently from the soul that originally inhabited it.

This theory could also explain the shadowy imagery surrounding the body. The shadows may symbolize the absence of the soul. The body appears hollow because something essential is missing.

The glitches, strange movements, and conflicting behavior might represent Nikki attempting to regain control over a body that has become its own sentient being.

In that case, Nikki and her body would eventually have to reach some form of coexistence.

They would need to communicate, cooperate, and share agency.

The body would not simply disappear, and Nikki could not simply reclaim complete control.

Instead, they would have to learn to function together as the Holy Trinity (The Father, The Son, & The Holy Spirit) does despite Nikki and her body now being somewhat separate entities.

Under this interpretation, the wish did not merely alter Nikki's emotions.

It fundamentally changed the relationship between Nikki's body, soul, and spirit.

The wish misplaced her soul, teleporting it out of the body, possibly to see if the new mechanic would work, granted her body independent consciousness, and then forced both into a state that neither was meant to occupy.

As a result, the universe of Obsession itself would be dealing with something entirely new: a human body capable of functioning independently from the soul it was originally created to work alongside.

And that possibility is what makes the theory so interesting.