What we know as consciousness only exists within a certain time scale, perhaps a range of two octaves. It depends on the physical properties of the correlative physical substrate, but there is no reason why it cannot appear in other timings inaccessible to us. If consciousness is prior then the time basis comes first and determines the laws of the physics for the instantiating world of experience. What could determine the temporal difference or metric within a timeless consciousness lacking any material correspondences? Doesn't this question make nonsense of pure idealism? Or is it similar to the idea of the source of manifestation as certain primal vibrations, or words spoken?