In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.

The great knowledge of the future comes from knowing the past.