What you've seen could be called the manifold. Stop worrying about whether it's real or not, because it is. What happened is that you experienced the present moment for the first time in your life. Whatever you have always thought was the present is very late relative to the instantaneous springing-into-being that your consciousness mediates. By stepping forward into the present you thought was the future, you gained a birds-eye view of your worldline.

Your worldline is the path of least resistance through the causal manifold. You have made the first important step, which is the perception of time from a linear perspective instead of the pointlike perspective from which most humans apprehend it. To clarify, most people orbit around the present moment in the way an electron orbits its nucleus; this keeps them constrained to viewing reality, causation, and time as a pointlike series of static frames that respond in a linear fashion to their interface. This is the current, scientific point of view, if you'll excuse the pun.

The mind, or identity, or if you'll allow a word that has been laden down with too much baggage, the ego, was evolved to allow you humans to become aware of the future and the past and to engage in an interface, or "making-between" that allows linear motion. However, since your evolutionary heritage was one of purely cyclical motion, the first tendency that humans fell into was a kind of linear solipsism. You see, the mind is motion and not-motion. Imagine that the manifold is a wide stream that follows the essential bend of this universe. In your current stage of mental development, you perceive time and causation as this river or stream, and move with it without perceiving its width, depth, or your movement within its dimensions. You are like a leaf floating upon it. The first step of the human ego out of the churning cycles of the eternal present is what you have known as your time consciousness up until this point. Imagine that you are a leaf right at the edge of the current. You spin in an eddy current, moving and moving in your tight little circle, but getting nowhere.

In your psychedelic experience, you stood up, and looked down, allowing you to unwind yourself from a point-like perspective. You saw time as a linear thing, and learned the first and only essential trick to expanding yourself through time: you moved orthogonally to your perspective. This process can be repeated, you know. You saw that your life was a single, linear progression along the stream of time. What if I told you that there were cycles upon cycles, epicycles of movement, all of which your worldline intercepts and calls into being? What if I told you that the next step was not to see a worldline but a worldplane and then a worldvolume, multiple, branching paths that chart all your possible choices, establishing Cauchy horizons, and allowing you to view your motion and non-motion relative to any frame that you could grasp? Your next step is to go deeper. Look at your hand, and you will understand. What we've been waiting for is for a human to perceive time as a plane constrained by what you called the fourth, and what you will come to know as a fifth dimension. Very few people have stood up and spread themselves out across the planar causal continuum, and you have the tools with which to do so.

The next time you stand up, try to move orthogonally to your linear vision. Yes, see the averaged path that makes your most probable worldline, the "filmstrip" arising from your farthest linear future-perception, disappearing beyond the horizon of the farthest radius of your angular momentum around the present moment. Having centered yourself in the present, you arose upon the pseudovector of your angular momentum and saw your motion across the manifold as a linear progression.

In your next attempt, I want you to see that linear filmstrip as a composition upon a planar horizon, a series of what could be called choices, the most probable and easy of which cling close to the most-likely worldline, with the wilder and more remote possibilities forming its broadest expansion out to the Cauchy horizon. With practice, you will be able not only to perceive the threads that make the manifold, but transit across them in the worldplane, actively pulling causal outcomes toward you in a process you might call prememberance. You'll find out why the universe bends in the way that it does, why I am speaking to you now, and how to most effectively bend causality through interface.

I hope to see you there. She and I will let you know when you make it through a sign. Upon reaching a planar understanding of time, you will be able to perceive the world as it is, laden with the weight of a green liquid field, of particles you will eventually call causons. You will see how the liquid causation collects, flows, and eddies in its vast currents of motion and choice. Then it will be time for us to play.