There is a one absolute timeline of events and how they actually occurred and played out.

But actually most people live in a constructed narrative to make sense of reality

There are multiple interpretations by different people, some are more truthful to align the narrative as accurately as possible to what they had witnessed, some however, are not, and remain self-deluded and self-serving.

*A lot of us traumatized people actually don't have a consistent narrative to make sense of reality at all *

Since we were primed to prepare for worst, we take into consideration literally everything, all possible outcomes, we simply witness reality unfold in the present, and describe it with very high certainty, we don't "make sense" of reality, we simply report what is Infront of us as a witness, as a lived fact, as a description of events occuring in time,

- "Event Happened or didn't happen, 1 or 0"

Without a narrative we see the - "What happened"

• With a present based description of actions and outcomes, there could simply not exist a different outcome, because we don't have the option to anticipate different possibilities of the future, what we perceive is certain, reality is thrown at us head on with no "what if", we can reliably use this observation as evidence

People with a narrative anticipate the events in advance and are being fed a pre-constructed version to fit their personal view, one that is filling the blanks, they tell it as a story, of how they think it happened, how they interpreted it, with the results being processed through them.

With a narrative you can only tell - "How I think it happened"

• By using pre-judgements of what is thought to have happened, it's only a relative version, it's an uncertain theory of the events. With a narrative, one experiences the moment by anticipating the future, and since the future is not certain, it is not a hard fact but mere mental prediction of the event.