We experience our everyday life as the passing of time and events similar to dots on a line. We can also say that time flows as the scenes in a film we experience with our senses – a film that has a beginning, middle and ending and we are both a player and a viewer.

So time basically flows as an arrow in one direction over the timeline – PAST -> PRESENT -> FUTURE



In cinema a movie screenplay can be organized basically in two ways:

linearly – when we go from beginning trough middle to end of the story and we never know what the ending might be since it reveals gradually in time

or

non-linearly – imagine the viewer is traveling over a spiral in time and he/she perceives notions of the movie’s beginning, middle and end the whole time but in pieces – at the beginning he might be given a clue what is happening at the middle and what might the possible end of the film be… that is non-linear perception.

And now imagine our perception of time and the life we live is very similar to a film screenplay

We can say that at some specific moments we "move over" a spiral and perceive time non-linearly – meaning we have a notion of what might possibly be the future like..

This effect might explain some of the phenomena of ESP like precognition, retrocognition and synchronocity.

PS: I thank for the notion to the movie "The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1" with Lars von Trier as a writer