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Why not ! We do such back ward running of time on many occasions.
For example, my darling wife has gone to our son's place. I know she has to come back in 7 days. My eagerness in mind starts counting the meeting day right from the next day only : Now only 6 days left for meeting my wife, next day 5....then 4, 3, 2, 1 day....if my eagerness is more, I might back count up to even the moment I would meet her !!!
Do you mean time moving in negative direction that way ???
If yes then, I think that is possible.
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The example that you've shown here is a prediction. It's your best guess. You can guess intelligently that your wife will be back in 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 days, but you aren't aware of that upcoming moment in the same way you would be if it had already happened. Like any predicted event, you don't have a 100% guarantee that she will be back in 7 days. She might return early or late due to unforseen circumstances.
If she had already returned, and you remembered that event, you would know you're wife arrived on time, what she wore when you saw her again, what present she brought back for you, and what she talked about. By predicting that she is coming back, you just have an unguaranteed, vague outline for things to come, not a memory of something solid and unchangable that has already happened.
Our experience of time only flows in one direction. There are qualities about the way we deal with the past that do not apply to the future and vice versa. We cannot remember how we are going to die or what the rest of our life will look like. We don't predict what happened in the past, like the vague ways we predict the future, we remember it with far more certainty.
The view of any given moment is different depending on when you look at it. The past, present and future impressions of any event are all different. When contemplating an event, before the event, we can only guess for most of the information that will be involved. During the event, we can scan or ask questions to find the information we want. After the event, we will be able to remember the information with much more certainty and detail.
It's true that our memories can leave out alot of information, and fade over time, but we can write things down or take photos. We can never take photos of the future, that we observe before they have happened.