Past, Present, or Future?

Is it a surprise to any one else the facts that you have memories of the past, but yet you have no memories of the future? Our subconscious mind which holds all of our memories has no sense of time. Time is a "man-made" measuring device. Through history it has changed in many different ways, from cycles, to seasons, to months, days, hours, minutes, etc. However, our subconscious mine does not have a magical time stamp. The only way that you can recall memories and place them in a time period is based on things that happened during that "period", or when you have memories that include a birthday, holiday, or some other "time based" experience.

If we can have such memories of the "past" then why do we not know or recall such memories of the future? Why do we not have memories of the present either? Considering there is no difference between past, present, or future. When you started reading this, this part of the article was in the future, but yet now it is in the present and before you finish reading this very word it will already be in the past.

Scientist have been able to prove now that we either currently see the future or we are already living the past. Based on experiments and other research findings they have determined that when we "see something" that event has either already taken place or has not taken place yet. An example of such an experiment where they came to this conclusion was a light experience. They would project a small light on area of a wall that was only a few feet away from the sitting participant. They flashed the light (it was roughly the size of a laser pointer dot) then four degrees to the right of it, and vice-versa, they would flash it again. The light that flashed changed in less then half a second. The brain, which is where you actually see things in the visual cortex, proceeded to think that the dot moved across the wall. However it did not move, just disappeared and reappeared.

They thought this was a little interesting. They decided to try with different colors to see what would happen. They first would flash the red one, and at the same time interval and separation they would flash the green one four degrees to the right of the first dot. It was an amazing discovery that the light not only appeared to move again, but changed color in the middle of its movement. How could the light change color before they even saw it? Two conclusions were drawn from this experiment. We are "living in the past" and the lights change and then we actually see them, seconds later. This would mean, again, that things occur and then we see them. The other conclusion was that we actually see what happens before it happens, or we "seeing the future".

Another example is if you were driving down a dark road and all of a sudden there was an animal in the road in front of you and you saw your headlight's light reflecting off their eyes, so you slammed on the brakes or swerved or whatever your normal reaction would be. Mathematically speaking, it takes half a second or more for the light to reflect off the animals eyes and then to your eyes for your brain to "see" the animal. Half-a-second or more? That is longer then it takes for a major league pitcher to throw a ball at 90 miles per hour across home plate, but yet the average baseball player's batting average is between twenty percent to upwards of forty percent or more for the best of the best.

How can this be or what relevance does this have to me? Well, since you asked. There is no such thing as future or we all see the future before it happens. Is that not amazing? Either we are "delayed" in responses so much that anything we see has already happened. Or we see things before they happen. Just imagine if you were able to mature these skills, make them stronger. You might be able to see into the "future" or you might be able to slow down everything and just observe the world since everything has already happened anyways.

The scientist in this study, which has been reproduced hundreds of times in various universities across the globe, is leaning towards the fact we probably perceive the future. If it was the case that things already happen and then we see them, essentially, there would a greater number of injuries, car accidents, deaths, et al. in the world, ten fold to what it is now. Keep that in mind next time you wonder why something is happening. Either it already happened so let the past be the past; or you have a hundredths of a second to change what is about to happen.

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