Paul feels like both his son and his grandfather, suggesting that his awareness has become a unity of the future and the past. Throughout the story, Paul’s prescience has pulled him toward the future—meanwhile, Hayt, Chani, and Paul’s longing for the old ways have drawn him to the past. Now that his son and heir has been born, Paul feels like the synthesis of both forces of time. Instead of feeling removed from the present by some hyper-awareness of time, Paul now feels all of time wash over him.