Days of future, past and present

Although time in one way at a constant speed, by having  access to random memories and cognition ability gives rise to a kind of time travel like feature in the mind. We can categorize what part of mind-time we are in using the terms past, future, present. The 50,000 thoughts or so we have each day can be broken in the three categories.

Past

An example of a past mind-space is a movie called Pom Poko by Isao Takahata. The movie highlighted how often our previous life experiences prop up in everyday life situations... walking outside with no shoes, eating pineapple. 

Future 

An example of a  future mind-space is a move called Mr Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael. The abstract science fiction movie presented a world where they was basically a rewind function of life. It reveals the quite stagnating effect of future-mind space on the lead character  

Present 

Well any part of a movie that isn't a flashback or a fast forward could really be considered a present moment. But for instance this example in Perks of being walflowers will work.

We do need the past mind space as without it we would be a gold fish not really learning anything new each day. Similarly not having a future mind space would mean that things like goals or achievement that cant be acheived in an hour could never be acheived. However, the future-past states are also wear things like worry, fear etc.

It was interesting to compare the musical scores for the different movies. It does seem Past-mind and Future-mind music tends to offer slow melodies with piano, string like instruments with a repetitive melody that does cause your mind to need to over focus on. On the other hand Present-mind music seems to have in this case more of a beat and deep bass. Which kind of makes sense as deep bass and heavy beats is something you actually feel through your body right now and by focusing on it your mind find it harder to wander (unless the song reminds of a past experience). While soothing music is probably more relaxing for reminiscing or pondering.... allows the future and past state to be explored with less of the worry etc.

Present-minded song

Past/Future minded song

Although in truth most songs will fall in a spectrum of discouraging or encouraging present momentness. For instance you can have the ultra extreme cases like