I haven’t seen the movie in a long time but I’ve always wondered about this. Time travel through hypnosis seems a bit far fetched.
Not exactly hypnosis. They re-create a time in a controlled area to such a fine level of detail that it syncs up with the world-line, so when it all goes right you can walk out of the room and in to the Past.
(Actually I have never seen the film, but that is how it works in the book.)
Couldn’t be a dream, or elderly version of Jane Seymour couldn’t have hunted him down in the first scene and said “Come back to me” before she died.
Strange. I was just thinking about the time travel aspect of this film the other day and wondered what would happen if he just wanted to time travel to a much more recent time, like just the previous month. Just litter the room with last month’s magazines and hope for the best?
I agree the watch proves it ‘works’ as real time travel rather than dream state in the film’s world. Although, and this is a different quibble, that watch never originally comes from anywhere in the first place, does it?
It was his signature in the registrar book. He was there.