Time I'm writing this sentence. Ok, now I've finished writing it. It belongs to the past, it's an action I've done. It does not exist _now_, but I have memories of when I did it. But does it mean it exists in the past? Does the past exist? When you think about it, why would it? It's not there, has never been there and all things belonging to it do not exist anymore. But when we say "anymore", it implies that those things existed at some point. Which is true, I think, but that doesn't make the past any realer since those things don't exist now. What are memories? Images of the past? I thought of that at first, but after reconsideration this doesn't seem to hold up. Imagine your brain as a huge parcel of sand. Now imagine a cat jumps in it then runs away. The cat jumping in is the event, the footprints, the memory. The cat is gone, the memory remains. Now you recall the event. How do you recall there was a cat there? You look at the footprints. That's your proof. But everything happened in the present. The cat jumping, then you recalling the memory. We remember in the present. The memory is just a mark in the sand. It's not the event, obviously, but a specific modification of the way the grains of sand are placed. Where's the past in all of that? Isn't the past just a belief? The belief that there is another plane of existence in which everything that was still is, in some kind of way? But as far as we know there isn't, we've only always known the present. So why are we so sure that the past exists? Memories are relevant, of course, but are not the past. We can view them as "data" our brains have deemed valuable enough to be stored. So when we think of a past event, we truely think of _memories_, thoughts, which only happen in the present. The beliefs that those represent or are the past are entirely subjective. That's a link we make ourselves. I have not taken shrooms