I like how you said "we are time" because indeed time is imbedded in us.

Fantastic reply thank you. I agree that the contemplation of time can be the subject that can to a degree affect our "productivity" per se.

Could you describe what you mean by being and becoming?

what a nice thought pattern you had. I Suppose to your animal wonderings we could assume that some animals, have a biological system like ours that regulate sleep patterns. They also experience hunger and it could be through their routine that their appetite begins at certain periods of the day.

This was more than a pleasure to read and I will get the book. Thank you.

The term "Directional force of energy" sounds really fit for a "clear" conception of time. If I understood you correctly, This is related to motion and it's necessary function of being dynamic?

Very well said. I did indeed not imply that time is a just-perceptional phenomena but I conceptualize it as you said: An ongoing one that is described as "A or B" by agents such as us.

I completely agree. Time indeed "must" have been just a conceptualized "state" pre-existence. Since time can also be described as the motion which objects are involved in, and we know that motion is magnificently old.

This sounds like a Buddhist type anecdote I love it.
"So then the student asked the buddha what time is"