I totally get what you are saying! I feel similarly and this has been the source of some distress for me. I have always loved the fact that my spiritual self has often operated at a different level than my peers, mostly because "the gaps" are crystal clear. Shifting my attention from the glimpses of the gaps back-and-forth to our perceived reality is hard for me. I like both views (not equally) and don't want to give one of them up for the sake of behaving "normally". I do want to temper my behavior a little so that functioning is easier, but i don't want to loose my ability to achieve a higher level of consciousness due to lithiating myself into blindness.

So what Venus is saying is consistent with what Skittles is saying insofar that our brains have more omnipotent access to true reality...our lack of filtration allows us to see the gaps, right?