Consider that as mobile organisms, this sequence of perceptions is necessary to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present moving past to future.

The reality is that change turns 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 and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but they are only foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, not the sequence of perception.

Energy is conserved, because it is present. As process, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

Lives go birth to death, future to past, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old. Past to future.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

Consequently the tendency to think in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form.

Excess signal reverts to back to noise.

As the most basic expressions of energy, waves tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal. Consequently there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

As the sentient interface between body and world, we fluctuate somewhere in the middle. Though there is a current primal obsession with synchronization, leading to these endless rabbit holes/vortices people get sucked into and turned loose from the larger network.

We are linear, object oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality. Consequently we tend to make it more complicated than it needs to be.