Monsters origin?

[dvow]

Actually Alexander did mention the monsters a few times, and I got the idea that he controls them. He once even orders the monsters to chase Daniel. Toward the end of the game, he says 'Well find him! Find him!' and seems to be able to order the monsters around. So there is a definite connection there between Alexander and those things. Alexander even says 'I can see what they see' near the end, indicating that he has a lot of control over those creatures.

Hmm, this can't be said for the water monster. The water monster, or lurker, or k-something--I forgot the name--is a real monster, without a doubt. You can feed it, and you even need some fluids from it for a mixture. I don't think Alexander has any control over the water monster.

One thing that really breaks your thesis apart is that there are other ways to die than to the monsters, and you 'wake up' from those deaths too. You can fall from too far, run into rotating blades, die from poisonous gas, or be killed by the water monster, which by all counts is real. I honestly don't think those things were in Daniel's mind. You even find a monster body that was killed by the shadow's slime at one point.