Time Traveling Or Dreams

By now in the book we know that Billy Pilgrim constantly has experienced a lot of time travel. He is always time traveling without any control over it. But my question is: Is there a difference from dreams Billy pilgrim may have to the real time travel? “Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel.” (Vonnegut). Here we can see that after all Billy does encounter both. Not all of his swatches in time are time travels controlled by the Trafalmadorians but sometimes it may also be his own dreams.

There is a part in chapter 7 when we know that Billy Pilgrim knew that the plane was going to crash and even though he did nothing about it nor even mention it. He did this because he did not want to seem like a coward in front of the others. He said: “but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so.”(Chapter 7). I think that maybe the reason of why he may have done this is because he knows about the Tralfamadorians and that they live I the fourth dimension and all of that including: “Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine.”(Chapter 7). And hence if they are like a machine then why even try to save yourself if you are a controlled robot? So basically Billy had a feeling that they were going to crash but he know that there was nothing that he could do to help it.