Second, it so happens that the right hemisphere is the source of our sense of time, as something lived through, as having duration (what Bergson called durée, in contrast with temps).44 This is precisely what we would expect if the right hemisphere deals with the sustained continuity of real experience – where everything that happens, happens in the flow of time – and the left hemisphere with a comparatively abstract realm, snapshots taken out of the flow, beyond the real-world context of actual, specific, existing beings that are subject to change.
