The conceptual link between time and space has been extensively discussed in theories of embodied cognition and conceptual metaphor, claiming that abstract domains like time are grounded in more concrete domains like space (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Within this framework, temporal relations are often expressed through spatial mappings within a deictic (ego-centered) frame of reference — for example, along the sagittal body axis, the future may lie “ahead” of us, while the past is “behind” (Clark, 1973; Boroditsky, 2000). The present experiments investigate the association of time and space along the sagittal axis by asking participants to physically sort temporal (e.g., now, later) and spatial (e.g., near, far) adverbs along a spatial layout extending from their own body (the deictic center) into space. In the first two experiments, participants consistently sorted both temporal and spatial adverbs congruently along this axis: words like “far” and “later” were placed farther away, while “near” and “now” were located closer to the self. In the third experiment, we manipulated the participants’ frame of reference: the experimenter pre-sorted one dimension (time or space) either in a spatially congruent or an incongruent (e.g., “far” placed at the “close” position) manner, and participants then sorted the other dimension. The results revealed an asymmetric interaction—temporal demonstrations had a stronger impact on participants’ spatial sorting than spatial demonstrations had on temporal sorting. This finding challenges the traditional view that spatial thinking unidirectionally determines how we mentally represent time and suggests instead that temporal structure can also affect spatial conceptualizations.