Introduction

Everything we experience, every thought, impression, intention, is part of a moment in time. The world is present to us in a series of moments, like frames in a movie or the pages in this book. We seem to have no choice about this. We experience the moment we inhabit now. Time feels completely unlike space: We can’t jump ahead, go back, or go forward. Time is not experienced like space, where we have a choice where to move. The difference between how we experience time and space shapes the whole of our existence.

Jorge Luis Borges and Arthur Schopenhauer once said that life and dreams are pages from the same book; to read them in order is to live, but to browse among them is to dream.

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