What is Lumon Testing? - Severance Theories

What we do know about these is that they all feature Gemma having to go through something that is uncomfortable turbulence a dental cleaning and writing countless Christmas cards until your hand hurts Bonus points if you caught the goat in the front It's clear that Gemma is a test subject perhaps for a product that Lumon is testing to give people in the outside world the ability to forget traumatic or painful experiences Imagine being able to just shut off during a dental cleaning or even all the pregnancy like we saw with Gabby Arteta You could live your life with almost no pain or suffering and I think this is part of Lumon's end goal This still doesn't explain a few of our biggest questions How did Gemma come back from the dead One theory is that she never died She could have been picked up by Lumon Maybe she even went willingly if they offered her a new medical breakthrough that would allow her to have a child But this wouldn't explain Mark having to identify her dead body Maybe they did something to his brain or that dead body they showed him was simply a lifeless clone Lumon does have both of their DNA from the blood drive This whole fertility angle makes me wonder if Gemma was chosen because she would be a good candidate to give birth to this reincarnation of Kier Eagan A big theory out there is that the Eagan's and Lumon are trying to resurrect Kier and I found it super unsettling how Dr Mauer used the word siring when referring to how Gemma would change the world a word commonly associated with childbirth We also don't know what's up with these various costumes and disguises both by Gemma and Dr Mauer They both seem to be set in the sixties or seventies Perhaps it's a way to distance these innies from Gemma As of now we only really know what 2 of these rooms are Allentown the Christmas room and Wellington the dentist In season one Allentown was Mark's first completed file that he did so fast they called it his freshman fluke It also happens to be Ben Stiller's wife's hometown By completing a file it seems to unlock a new room on the test floor We'll even see Dylan's Tumwater room from season one With Mark at 96 percent completion of the Cold Harbor file Gemma notes that the room finally got a name We don't know what Cold Harbor is Perhaps it's her reliving the car crash or the pain of losing a child These rooms require blood from the nurse in order to enter So if Gemma or anyone else wants to access these rooms that's going to be an issue You'll also hear Gemma's room automatically locked behind her implying that she is indeed held captive When Gemma visits the Wellington room you'll hear Dr Mauer whistling Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald the same song he whistled while retrieving his dental tools a few episodes ago It's also possible these rooms have something to do with the maintenance of the human body from dental work calisthenics workouts and even learning how to read and write But why does Gemma's handwriting look like it was done by a child She's a college professor after all This may suggest either head trauma from the accident or that this body isn't Gemma's original