What Is Time — And Why Does It Seem to Flow?

Time is like a story we’re all reading, one page at a time. You start with the first chapter (birth), and you read until you reach the end (death). But it doesn’t feel like you're reading the story, it feels like it's moving forward on its own. That’s what we mean by the flow of time.

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  1. Imagine your day is a movie, each moment is like a frame, and you're watching it play in order.
  2. Time feels like it’s moving forward because you know what happened before and can imagine what might happen next.
  3. If you forget something, it seems like time went by faster, the flow of time felt quicker.

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