Reading harold_maude's journal

For a while now the concept of time has been stuck and spinning in my thoughts.
What is time exactly?
I was told it was a measurment.
I thought about that, and tried to see it as that.

It didn't seem to be enough of an answer to explain what time is.
Then after exploring the effects of time, and thoughts on movement and matter how it's possible to see the effect of time rather than time it's self.
A very unique picture formed in my mind.
Immagine, if you will an endless field of motion. You can tell that motion exists in this place because as the field moves you can see the reflection on the layers of surface that exist in this field.
Now with that in mind immagin that this field has a horizon line, and the only reason you can see the horizon is to give you some sense of the depth of the layers which are transparent to the eye.
Then as you watch this field of motion you slowly see a tree emerge.
From unreconizable to crystal clear.
As you watch this tree you see it go from sapling to full size and then through the process of death and decay.
It's all a very smooth process.
Then as the tree fades into the field of motion you see a planet appear in the same way the tree did, and go through the same kind of process as the tree did.

Now immagine that both the tree and the planet begin to come into view again, at the same rate of speed.
You can see both processes taking place. They appear to be going at the same speed through their respective life spans.
And nither is moving faster than the other.
What have you just witnessed?

The motion of time upon matter. This is what I came away with from that.
That time is in motion, always.
Time affects matter as it comes in contact with with matter.
Time is fluid, and effects both matter and energy.
Time is a key to understanding the matrix of the universe.

I also had this equation sitting in my head.
I could see this in my mind, in other words.

Time x geometry = matrix
matrix x possiblities = endlessness.

I have no way of proving or disproving this equation.
And since I really suck at math, if this does turn out to be the right answer I will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm seeing and understanding things that I shouldn't be able to see or understand because when I had scarlet fever at the age of 5 the logic and mathimatical part of my brain got damaged.
The right side of my brain, the creative side I figure compensated and began to imitate the parts that were damaged and lost.
I through the right side of my brain interpeted the information that I could remember as best as it could.

So, if this is right, and I'm seeing exactly what it is, then it's one more conformation that I'm understanding what I shouldn't be able to.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.