I like your mind.
It’s a paradox, it’s like dreaming of time while time is unfolding in front of our eyes.
This imo is clue to understanding consciousness and physical existence. I believe every instance of our expression. As the continuous NOW frame exists frozen as lived past frames, eternally, in the aether. Like a book. Every past frame, a page.
Ability to be self aware is ability to, virtually at least, be our self observer and also "travel through time"
Hence your quote.
Physically we still remain in that now frame (which is why daydreamers have a blank stare) but in mind.. In hyperspace.. we journey. In the same way the dreaming allows us to.
My view of time is different though but that quote triggered these thoughts.
The painting is beautiful too.
Makes it more so knowing it was a young mind that created it.
Hey! Oh I feel so excited when I get a smart witty reply, thank you so much! I think that it is interesting to put time into perspective. I was listening the other day an interesting remark made by someone, saying that our reality might change when we will think that we are a spirit living a human experience rather than viceversa. If the passing of time is lived as a spiritual experience, then we can definetely be more self aware. Because spirit trancends beyond time and therefore it has the power to remain powerful throught history itself. I was pondering and questioning this idea. Maybe when people grasp what time really is, especially how they should see time, maybe then they will be able to live to their fullest potential?
I would think about the visionaries, the dreamers, the inventors, people who made humanity reach new levels of achievements. Those people lived in their time, but they were way ahead, ahead of the time. What if self awareness is a potential people do not reach because they would then have to face the prejudice of being different, of being out of tune with their time?
But then.. What is your time versus the time? If people would live according to their own perception of time, realising what they could achieve inwards, then the question of we're running out of time as a society is out of the window. Maybe we will always have time, beyond our physical presence here. Maybe time just never ends, but our spiritual experience on a specific time on a specific place does.
I was quite young when painting this and I still think about the time dilemma even more now then I did then. But I do it inwards.
How do you see time? How do you see your time?