I’ve been thinking about time as a range rather than an arrow. Given existing theories that all time occurs at once, I have started to consider human life as a range of impact and experience. I have long held that when we ‘die’ it is only a perceptive end. We lose the ability to generate new memories, activities, motion, etc. Our initial energy lives on beyond that range of consciousness. This framework allows for concepts like, range of life (lifespan) to explain how different individuals can directly impact a range of activity within this flattened dot of time.
Our lifespan, or range of impact is the time where we have consciousness. This is the limited period in which we can directly affect what happens within the reality construct as well as be affected by the reality construct.
Here is where my thinking goes beyond: I believe we have the innate capacity to experience everything that occurs within our range. This does not explain the perception of ghosts (unless you consider overlapping ranges and the ability to perceptively connect with everyone within our range) but it does tie in with the theory that we are all one and connected.
I don’t know that the idea of range means anything right now. The range of human experience should be as long as the oldest person in the world’s lifespan to the most recently born individual’s possible death date. That range of experience does suppose that we have the ability to move forward as well as backwards, as all possible timelines have already occurred.