Time and space are conceptual constructs that make sense of the complexity of what's going on, out of them comes experience and the experiencing subject. None of these correspond to the reality, but they serve to make it coherent according to a certain pattern. They are not imposed on you from the outside, from some unquestionable other of the spirit, from history or the divine. You actually do them, but can't bring that act to openness because the only self or agency you can understand are creations within that frame.