For me the uncertainty of what the experience really is, and the not-so-linearness of it, gave me a lot of intuition about perceiving things in a higher dimensional way, as literally and mathematically as it sounds. I also always liked to play with shapes in my head, visualization / imagination, since I can remember.
When I analyze an event for example (since our lives are fueled by the motion of events) I can visualize the causality mechanisms involved, these being partly psychological, physical, archetypal... and it all boils down to pattern recognition. I also like to imagine 'time slices' merge and form 4d time paintings.
This means I'm not as easily dragged into chaotic loops, and have a more overall balanced life, that when gets out of balance, I can exercise my own free will
more easily to re balance it, and not wait for some miracle. It can be in my opinion a powerful mind workout tool, long term, if used properly.
There are totally unseen, more abstract things that are able to manifest themselves in our lives, and it takes a different kind of perceiving to understand them.