The simple, basic problem with our sense of time is that as mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body was with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, like frames of film.

So our experience is this present going past to future.

It is the basis of humanity, narrative and history, the accumulation of knowledge, etc.

Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns 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.

It's a tapestry being woven of strands constantly being pulled from what was woven.

So it's like trying to understand the cosmos swirling east to west, before realizing the earth turns west to east.

"Energy" is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So time is like temperature. An effect and measure. Rate versus degree.

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't confuse them with space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting consciousness manifests as energy.

Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous systems sorts signals from the noise.

Which creates a further conceptual error, in that we try to reductionistically frame reality in terms of the models derived, the information projected, from math to monotheism to money and go swirling down the various rabbit holes, echo chambers, as any circuit breakers are overridden, in that linear quest for some Holy Grail.

So we try to impose this concept of linear on a reality that is more cycles of accumulation and consolidation, like rings of a tree.

The signals our minds pick out of the noise are what resonates and synchronizes with our prior knowledge, building on and adding to the previous layer, as it did to its priors.

This applies to cultures as well, with religions as the core, the locus, the center of gravity.

Yet like childhood memories, these foundation stones originate from our most emotional and least informed state. Often, like an old tree, the center can be totally rotten out, even if the growth rings are still healthy.

I know this doesn't apply to your particular puncturing the veil, but the communication method of writing has logical limits.