>>12739981>>12739961But does not your perception influence the past and future? Who is to say that you can't think something happened differently and influence the past?
If this is true with your perception of events that have already occurred than it is still much more true with events in the future, which are yet to occur. Simply put, when traveling through time at your pace, realize that you are traveling through the thoughts, perceptions, and hopes, of everyone who has perceived this point in time in their minds eyes, at whatever points they have.
Optics teaches us that if we see something clear, we have seen it without any obstacles, but that if we see a reflection it is severely dimmed. This is like looking in the past. And looking into the future is, simply put, looking into a mist at an object. You're looking at a vase, but you hope to see a beautiful woman.
Sometimes it helps not to see, not to be able to clearly discern something, because this object could be how your mind perceives it to be.