Special Relativity. Lifetime.

[John 6IX Breezy]

I think that you're conflating the perception of time with time itself. A little over a century ago an eccentric Swiss patent clerk won a couple of Nobel Prizes for demonstrating the existence and very peculiar behaviour of spacetime. Time is one facet of the spacetime that is the foundation of all reality. Time isn't just the clock ticking it's where the universe lives.

Hmm a couple decades ago Moniz won the Nobel Prize for lobotomies. Before that Golgi and Cajal both won the prize despite having opposing theories of the nervous system. The prize doesn't bring you any closer to truth, or to good ideas.

We don't have receptors for perceiving time, unfortunately. What we do have are neurons specialized for the perception of motion. So no, time is not a thing to be perceived, it is an abstraction.