Also known as the "present moment." This article explores the perception of time and how we can tap into the eternal nature of ourselves and reality. Horizontal Time This is the usual way we perceive time: moving from past → present → future  in a straight line. It's clock time, calendar time, aging time. Most of our stress and stories come from here — we replay the past, bringing it into our present, or project into the future — trying to predict or control something we can'