Much like we see the sun and stars as rising in the east and setting in the west, I think we see time backward.

As these mobile creatures, we have a sequential process of perception, necessary to navigate. Then as humanity, we have a narrative based culture, from sharing and learning from experiences, so we naturally think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Even phsyics codifies it as measures of duration.

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.

Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of activity and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

As an effect of activity, it is similar to temperature, pressure, color, sound. Think frequncies and amplitudes.

Energy is "conserved," because it is present. Its changing configuration creates time. Consequently, as process, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, thoughts, emotions go future to past.

In terms of a wave, the energy is what drives it, while the fluctuations and undulations, from which we get frequencies and amplitudes, are the forms being manifest. Rising and falling.

As galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Energy toward infinity, form toward equilibrium. Both entropic.

We have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the forms precipitating out.

While our thoughts and perceptions are of the waves cresting and thus most clear, it is our emotions and intuitions which sense the energies of the waves building and receding, so not clear, but definitely felt.

We do tend to confuse sequence with causality, but yesterday doesn't cause today. The sun shining on this spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights. Similarly our perceptions are like a movie projector, flashing a series of images, incorporating a broad range of input from many sources. Then our minds and imaginations construct narratives of how they all fit together. Even though it is simply emergent from intentional motion and the appetite for more fuel to feed the flame within.

If anything it is a cycle of expansion and consolidation, from recursive thought, to the seasons. Much is thrown at us and we sort the signals we want from the much greater noise of the environment, losing sight of the fact this environment is context for the signals making up our thoughts.

As these narrative based societies, we think it all should be leading somewhere, some grand finale to the story, an ends to give focus to the means. Even though the ends always recedes, like the horizon.

Consequently we have distilled those orignal imaginings of some far off heaven to the material default of piles of wealth and power.

Nature though, remains cyclical.

The bull is power. The matador is art.

More Rock, Paper, Scissors, than winner take all.

More the yin and yang, than God Almighty.