Time is the ability of consciousness to observe and memorize linearly, i.e. by the order of happening, its physical and psychological actions and events. What this means is that if there are no actions or events, there is no time either.
Observation and memory of time, i.e. the order of actions and events, is important for understanding the law by which consciousness exists. Only by this observation and memory of time is it possible to understand causal-consequential relations between physical and psychological actions and processes performed by the consciousness, which of necessity come from one another linearly. It is important to understand that these actions and processes have their order according to which they start, last, and end, and which cannot be disturbed. That very order which repeats in cycles has the meaning of time as something that flows by eternally, unstoppably, irreversibly, and linearly.
This way of understanding time tells us that “time travel” is only fallacy and an act of imagination, because it is not possible to travel through something that does not exist. What exist are only the events which happened, which are happening or which will happen, and it is not possible to travel through them. If this were possible, it would mean that it would be relative whether cause precedes consequence or vice versa, i.e. that it would be relative whether we are first born or die. The speed of an event sequence occurring also carries no significance either: no matter how high the speed may be, the events cannot jump to past or future ones over others, but can only proceed linearly, through the system of causal-consequential relations, as physical and psychological actions arise one from another, i.e. one after the other.
This, of course, applies to all movements of material bodies through space. No matter how great the speed of that movement is, time will always provide a coordinate of the lengths of the paths that those bodies cross, the order of which in reality (except in the imagination) can never be disturbed, in the sense that it is impossible to place afterwards parts of the path that occurred before and vice versa. This type of instance would mean that a body could reach the target before even moving from the starting point.
However, it should be emphasized that time is not applicable to consciousness – it is beyond time. This is understandable because consciousness is neither action, nor event, nor body i.e. it is not time, but the performer of actions and events and constructor of the body i.e. time. That is why consciousness exists always, in the past, present, and future, and its actions and events (i.e. bodies) exist only once and never again. A particular action or event that the consciousness performs (causes) today, cannot be performed (cause) by it ever again. It can perform (cause) an action just like that one or a similar one, but the one that it performed today, it cannot ever perform again. If it could, then there would not be time, as consciousness would be able to put each action and event as it wishes into the past, present, or future. But it cannot do this. A particular action and event that the consciousness performed for example in the past will always stay in the past and the past will be recognized through it. Consciousness recognizes the future through actions that it has not performed yet but intends to. Only the actions of consciousness – past, present, and future ones – are time and that is what can be seen as running and passing. Only consciousness neither runs nor passes. It is the only one that makes that passing possible and the only one that is aware of the passing as well as of its own ever-lastingness.