time, streams and flowing perceptions

Linear perception. Time like a River, makes for good lyrics. Our way(s) of seeing, feeling time, measuring seems to be an important foundation of how we perceive and therefore act, and think and all...even adore the adored entity whatever we choose which is usually an infinite _________ (choose your noun). Once I found comfort in time as a stream as an idea, a way of planning, backward and forward, but now, I'm not so sure... interesting piece by David Eagleman, Brain Time.