A wave is energy expressing form.
We are these mobile organisms, necessititating this sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is of the point of the present, moving past to future, yet the reality is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, not some dimensionless point between past and future.
As process, it goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. With the wave, the energy drives it, expanding out, while the ripples created rise and fall, settling back to equilibrium.
Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.
Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts rise and fall, future to past.
Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous systems sorts and orders the patterns. Which is why consciousness seems somewhat distinct from the thoughts and feelings it is constantly manifesting, yet also pushing and examining.
Thoughts are like the wave cresting, fully formed and clear, yet quickly receding, while feelings are the thermostat and barometer, feeling the pressures and temperatures rising and falling, but not clear and distinct.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, while the forms coalesce in, toward equilibrium.
We fluctuate somewhere inbetween everything canceling out and everything fading out.
The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement.
The heart and the head.
Yin and yang.
