We are in a post-Freudian age where everyone has their own reality. We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. Theodore Roszak Perception is reality. It's a mistake to think that reality turns over completely every three years. That's much to reductive, too Procrustean.
Reality turns over completely every nine years.
Motion away from one phase is simultaneously motion toward another. If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Louis Menand You never know where the next dimension will come from or what on earth it will be. So it will go, the dream will move from dream to reality to memories. Robert Asp People steeped in nostalgia cannot even remember the present, let alone sense the future.