u/PizzaXDXD

‘Time’ is only experienced by us, as conscious 3d being, because we are on a timeline that cannot be changed once it happens, so we only view our life in a forwards motion. The word time is a description of the ability to remember the past, and think about the future. We also have the ability/ the illusion of ‘free will’ how we can do whatever we want in the present. That’s what consciousness is.

There is no time, there is never a ‘past’ or ‘future’, not even really a present, by the time you’re aware of the present, it’s already in the past. Time is something our conscious mind experiences in this existence. There is a ‘now’, and everything that’s the past, is simply our conscious brain recalling snapshots of ‘time’ that’s already happened. And the future, is all of those snapshots, creating every possible outcome, but only 1 actually happens to us. If we didn’t exist, time wouldn’t either. The entire universe is on a constant state of *now*, and does never grow older. It’s only ever *now*.

People say that if you were able to experience the 4th dimension, meaning, we became 4 dimensional beings, we would see the entire universe, and every single possible timeline of everything, laid out in front of us like a ‘video reel’. But not just one, an infinite amount. If we were 4 dimensional creatures, we would have the means to interpret that all, we wouldn’t just see it, we would experience everything, ever, at once. Meaning, that you would only ever be experiencing everything, in the *now*.

It might sound insane to us, but that’s simply just because we don’t have the means to understand it. It’s almost like trying to think of a color that doesn’t exist, we simply just can’t do it.

I like to think of our consciousness, how we can think about the future, and recall the past, as a thing that is trying its absolute hardest to experience the 4th dimension, or higher, but we simply just don’t have the senses/means to do it. So we are stuck, just experiencing what we can *now*, passing through what we experience as ‘time’.

Referring back to one of my first points ‘We also have the ability/ the illusion of ‘free will’ how we can do whatever we want in the present. That’s what consciousness is’.

I say ‘illusion’ because if a higher dimensional being is able to see everything, that surely means that every possible outcome is pre-decided, even if we think what we are doing is random, or on purpose. Say i lift my right arm up in the present, the ‘video reel’ will also have me doing that, but at the same time, there would be another video reel where i don’t lift it, or one where my left arm is lifted instead. Everything i do determines what timeline i am on, hence why we experience the butterfly effect. How one small thing, can affect the entire rest of our conscious life.