Imagine yourself moving through time, or time moving past you, in a visual way (sorry to all the aphantasics). Got it?
Now, in your visualization, you're facing:
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The results are so surprising -- I too contributed to the lopsided result thus far -- given that we see the past in a way we cannot see the future.
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Depends on the direction of the time travel, but slight intuitive preference for "into the flow"
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I picked the closest to what I visualize. I picture time kind of a flow from left to right with myself kind of moving sideways viewing its passage.
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My visual of me moving through time is the common film scene where the main char is moving regular speed but the background is moving at 4x speed. Not sure what direction that is facing.
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There are other possibilities. It’s going past me from right to left. NLP makes distinctions about this, calling two of the possibilities through time and in time meta programs
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I have to wonder how many people were unconsciously influenced by the opening credits from Dr Who.
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Time would flow fluid. Existing in every second and none of them simultaneously.
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Another way to test spatial time metaphors is to ask someone, "We had a meeting scheduled on Wednesday. I need to move it forward two days. What day is our meeting on?"
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I don't think time, if you could stand amidst it to see, wouldn't be linear at all.