It’s interesting to explore how my mind constructs what seems obvious from a conventional and unquestioned view, including ideas of time, space, control, body, objects, matter, a me and I, and even ideas of clarity and confusion, identification and so on.
For instance, there is a sense that I know what will happen, at least to some extent. So I look at the components of my experience: words, images and sensations.
Do I know what images will appear next? Do I know what images will appear to my physical eye? To my inner eye? Do I know what image will appear next second?
Do I know what words will appear next?
Do I know what emotions and body sensations will appear next?
Do I know what sound will appear next?
When I look at my images of what will happen at any point in the future, are those images what will actually happen? Are they the actual future?
When I look at my words of what will happen at some point in the future, are those words the actual future?
And I can do the same with time. Is the word “future” the actual future? Are my images of a timeline, of an abstract future, and of specific events in the future, the actual future? Are the associated sensations the actual future? (And what about the past, or present, or “time”, or space?)