The problem with time is that as mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and world operates as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future.

The reality is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

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

So we tend to divide reality in terms of known and unknown, order and chaos, rather than energy and form. Even though galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.