What Exactly is Eternity?

It truly seems very difficult to imagine eternity in our limited human capabilities. Our minds are the most powerful biological computer known to our current reality; however, it can be limiting when try to imagine and define what eternity is. Can you truly envision what it is like for everything to be forever, always has been, always will be and is now? I feel like I know what that is like, but do I really have a grasp on what forever or eternal actually means? I want to start by looking at what dictionary definitions state. When I started looking at definitions for eternity, I first found the definition of a definition, which made me really think about this definition of eternity — here are a couple of these definitions:

“The act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear.”

“The condition of being definite, distinct, or clearly outlined.”

As you can see from defining a definition that it is going to be very difficult to clearly define the definition of eternity. How can we truly define something as enormous and elusive as eternity? Imagining this type of expansiveness and foreverness can be severely limited by the confines of our human consciousness — at least the part of the consciousness that we feel we have control of — our conscious mind. However, our subconscious mind is connected to this ever-expansive eternity of the…