I see time as a piece of string. Exactly how it appears depends on context. Usually it is coiled up. The smallest coils might be days, the larger coils they fo

I see time as a piece of string. Exactly how it appears depends on context. Usually it is coiled up. The smallest coils might be days, the larger coils they form are then weeks or months, then years, perhaps decades or centuries if I'm considering historical events. On a lower level, sometimes there are coils on the level of minutes and hours, or perhaps of ten minute appointment slots if I am waiting to be seen by a doctor. Sometimes a piece of string is just a flat, boring piece of string, with the past on the left and the future on the right. Sometimes the string gets tangled with itself --- the points that touch represent dates when related events occured.