Understanding the 4th Dimension! (Will make your brain explode)

[BlackCandleLight]

I get so frustrated about people saying time is the fourth dimension. Scientificly time can never be the fourth dimension because time is not a full dimention. It's a half dimension.

To expand: The first dimention is length. On a line (which is one dimentional) you can go either left or right.
The second dimention, width, adds another 2 movements; forward and backward.
The third dimention, height, adds another 2 movements; up and down
Time however, adds only 1 movement. You can only go to the future, but you cannot go back to the past (it's true, hot tub time machines do not exist).
This is why scientists see time as a 1/2 dimention, and because of that it cannot be the fourth dimension.

I hope that cleared up the concept of the dimension of time.

If I understand it correctly, which i probably don't (side note: ouch, my brain), we can't perceive the full dimension that time/duration/whatever takes place in. It appears to move in one direction, because we can only perceive it in terms of three dimensions. If we were, say, pushed through time by a four dimensional ... thing, we could end up at any point in our lifetime, but only as our past self (urgh, comprehension failing me). If I understand it, which I probably don't, one would have to "fold" through the fifth dimension, which would in turn be sixth dimensional movement, in order to consciously move oneself through time to any point past or future. I (ow, headache) Probably got this all wrong, but I would like someone to correct me if I am. I am unfortunate to find extra dimensions fascinating.

if that is true and it very well might be then we could be pushed back and forth along our timeline but would have no recollection because if we got moved back to an earlier time period then we would not keep the memories of the future because our consciousness would be reverted at the same time, and if we moved forward then we would have the consciousness of the elder self.

its the whole thing about time stopping and then later resuming every 4 seconds but no one notices because every method of measuring time and everyone's consciousness stops along with time.
so theoretically for all intensive purposes we are each an infinite and minuscule age simultaneously if you count up the amount of you have spent back and forth. . .

Schrodinger soup anyone?

i however subscribe to the 4 spatial dimensions idea as opposed to the 4th one being time.

EDIT: god i love it when i have to think this long about an idea to understand it.