When you think of reality, of all that matters, you think of the present state of things where present is a compact temporal interval around the point-now. Awareness of death makes it impossible to consider deeper into the past as real since the lines of experiencings that realised it are irreversibly extinguished. The past is dead and the future is abstract, only the present is real, or has any actuality. All of this is conceptually confused, and not least because the present is only what it is by way of retentions and expectations - no qualia to be experienced without that temporal interval in which they develop, like images in a photograph. What is outside of or beyond the present is only understood by way of temporal analogies and and this prevents you from appreciating the full scope of being which is not bound by time, by the sub-phenomenon of presencing. There is no temporal gateway out of time, it is gateless.