@existential potential,
There is no measuring method to compare perspectives of reality with each other, hence it's very difficult to attest that the one perspective supersedes the other.
At best, you can gain a deeper, more meaningful understanding of how this reality and you as the central axis in it function. That is to say, that you deepen your understanding of those aspects of your reality that you feel are most important to comprehend. For some it's a quest for meaning in this life, for others it's understanding on how to prepare for the afterlife, for many it's understanding the physical and mathematical theories that make the world as we perceive it work. Plenty can't even be bothered, and just want to make life as they experience it as pleasant as they possibly can.
I guess you are inferring a perpetual journey of self-discovery. Of some sorts. That's actually a very worthwhile goal to strife for.
But, if you gain a new understanding of reality, one that you aren't happy with, wouldn't you want to go back to the 'happy' place?
I imagine, for instance, that the jews in the WWII concentration camps gained astonishing insights in the ranges of cruelty and compassion of others, but was the price to pay for this process worth the gain?
How about the trench warfare of WWI? Or the atrocities in Bosnia Herzegowina?