Fast Forward.---------------->

To begin, I believe that every fast forward the Billy has is simply a figment of his delusional mind.  The proof that he had been admitted into a mental hospital further proves my point.  In Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five",  Billy has flash forwards that seemingly allow him to see the future.  However, I do not believe that these imagines simply come together randomly. It seems that nearly every time that a negative or poor situation is happening, he flashes forward into a happier or distant image.  " He groped for the light, realized as he felt the rough walls that he had traveled back to 1944, to the prison hospital again"(Vonnegut, 123).  Prior to this question, Billy's wife had been asking him about his experiences with the war.  Obviously, he did not enjoy talking about it.  All the symptoms of what he is going through seems to be half insanity and half PTSD. He is constantly having flashbacks of the time when death was so close.  He sometimes acts irrationally and unexplainably.  Instead of being a traveler, I believe that Billy is just a poor man who is suffering from a disease that makes him believe ridiculous things.