Perhaps my intuition was correct, even if not perfectly so, a few years ago when pondering how this could be my 17,043rd human incarnation in the 300,000 years of the species, I came up with this: "As relating to time, I believe that souls are time travelers in that we can choose to improv-script our masterclasses at any point in time. I do not believe an already-lived-life has to have taken place in the past nor that a yet-to-be-lived life has to take place in the future. I do not believe that the paradoxes of time-line crossing as discussed in science fiction present an issue. Each chosen setting is an alternate reality." https://medium.com/my-unpopular-opinion/no-physicist-has-yet-to-understand-the-concept-of-time-be3b33506ea6

White Feather wrote a fascinating attempt at a more complete understanding of all this: https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/simultaneous-selves-8eca7d61801d. I urge you and anyone else to read White Feather's essay.