Time, 2

Here I am, watching brainrot, when suddenly I have an
insight. I've already written what my thoughts were about
time at one point, but this time I didn't have to make any
effort to think about it, it just presented itself to me on
its own. Time, as I imagine it, is nothing but a concept
we thought of ourselves: The idea that a past, a present,
and a future exist is nothing but a complete creation that
we believe real. What changed this time is that I suddenly
remembered that cyclical time is another representation
of time, too — and it's fundamentally as valid as the
more common, western representation of time as a linear,
infinite line separated into a past, present and future.

As far as I know, a linear representation of time could
just as easily be a cyclical one, but just with a loop
too big for us to notice. Think billions or trillions of
years long.

Does a cyclical representation make no sense to you?
Then you might want to make some deeper inquiring into
the "classic", western representation of time, too, as
it can be seen as a subset of a cyclical representation
if you think hard enough. If you can truly picture time
as a never-ending loop, then you may be able to use your
skepticism against our own western representation of time.

I may not even be sure that a "present" even exists now.
We think of the present as a single point in time,
constantly moving towards a future and away from a past.
But if the past and the future don't exist, then what we
call "present" has no clear boundaries. Maybe I'm simply
nitpicking, but we have no way of knowing that everything
we experience comes from a single moment.  Yes, everything
we feel happens now, but is there a tangible link between
that feeling which we call "now" and what we call "the
present"?

If I knew how to communicate more precisely what I felt
during that split second, I would. No shrooms involved
this time either.