Rome's Theory of Time Travel

Yesterday, Rome started to explain to Rei her theory of time travel. Not in the science fiction sense but in the psychological sense. Something she had personally experienced:

      Rome continued, “Perhaps time is more like a long river than a series of individual moments. Perhaps our consciousness normally just floats along. But maybe some people can travel up or down that river, with their minds. A form of time travel.”
     “That sounds like string theory to me,” Rei observed. “I’m not buying it. My mind can only think of now. The rest is the past or the future.”
     “You, yourself once called the Chara mission a ‘damned time machine’. So even you acknowledged the possibility.”
     “I was speaking metaphorically,” Rei protested. “I mean, we go to sleep and wake up in the morning. That doesn’t really count as time travel.”
     “All right, explain this then,” Rome countered. “Four years ago, before I had even given birth, I was in the Vuduri compound and had a bad dream. A nightmare really.” Rome shivered. “In that dream, a black hooded stranger came to take our son. When I would not agree, he grew until he filled the sky, just like the Sipre. In the dream, it was Aason who saved me but upon reflection, I think it was OMCOM’s genetic manipulation of you that allowed us to defeat him. You were Aason’s creator.”
     “Dreams don’t count,” Rei said. “Everybody has them. That had to be a coincidence.”
     “You always say there ain’t no such thing as a coincidence.”
     Rei set his jaw. “I still don’t believe it.”
     “Well I do,” Rome insisted. “When we were under the Tevatron, when I first touched the dried blood of Hanry Ta Jihn, my ancestor as it turns out, my mind flashed back to his time as if I was there in person. I feel like I went down the river.” Rome reached up and touched Rei’s cheek. “That is all I am saying. Perhaps Sally was someone who could travel up the river, forward to our time. Maybe she saw our future together like I saw the past.”
     “That’s too heavy to even consider,” Rei said. “But if there were ever any doubt we were fated to be together, I guess this seals the deal.”
     Rome pulled Rei’s head forward and kissed him on his cheek. “You are right. Now that we have settled our score with those that wanted to bring us harm, it’s time to get on with our lives. Together.”
     “Yep,” Rei said. “On this wonderful little planet. I always thought it was a plain Jane, nothing world but every time we dig, like with the ‘blankets’, we find out there is more to it. Like peeling back the layers of an onion.”
     “Yes,” Rome said happily. “I love this little world. Our world.”
     “And I love you,” Rei said. He kissed her deeply and drew his hand up, first to her chest then down her front, stopping when he got to her stomach. The private moment Rome and Virga shared before they took Virga home flashed into his mind.

Rome's explanation sounds a lot like the TV show Quantum Leap except Rome was a passive viewer and could not interact with the past. And Sally's preview didn't really change anything either.

Tomorrow, the final secret is revealed.