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Sorry for answering the question 9 years after you asked it, but the answer (in my opinion) is that Kelvin is not actually down on Solaris, he’s in his room on the station.
Remember when he accidentally set himself on fire when he put Hari on the rocket? After that, he goes back to his room and puts his head under the shower, which he doesn’t turn off or on. It’s just running.
At the end, when he’s looking through the window of his father’s house in his mind, in reality he’s staring into the shower in his room.
This is also what’s happening when the apparition of his mother washes his arm in the bowl of water, not long before the end.
Before the end sequence begins, as Kelvin is being dragged down the corridor, he asks what really happened to Gibarian.
In my opinion, it’s likely that Gibarian’s brain waves were also broadcast to Solaris by Sartorius, and Gibarian’s mind was invaded by Solaris, causing him to hallucinate, and as he was experiencing one of these hallucinations, he went into the freezer compartment and froze to death.
But re Kelvin, he sees water in his father’s house because he is in his room hallucinating while staring into the shower.
posted 2 years ago in Solyaris (1972)