Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic is a long-form, essay-style strip exploring the concept of two dimensions of time: "proper time" and "remembered time." Proper time is the linear, measurable kind tracked by clocks and calendars -- it is finite and homogeneous. Remembered time, by contrast, is stored in neurons and is "infinite and clumpy" -- some memories expand and grow more significant over time while others shrink and vanish.

The comic further explains that proper time memories exist only in the past, while remembered time memories can "exist anywhen" -- we can revisit, reinterpret, and even argue with our past selves about them. It notes that humans are biologically incapable of accessing proper time directly, which is why a point in remembered time never feels the same way twice. The strip concludes on an optimistic note, showing how this quality of remembered time is "why love is possible... and why life is bearable" -- because our memories of connection and meaning can grow richer and more vivid even as proper time marches forward. It is a surprisingly philosophical and earnest strip for SMBC, using the comic format to present an almost poetic meditation on the nature of memory and human experience.