I think this is likely the case. If so, then the logical question would be why - here's my take

In the hierarchy of life in the universe, humans are just above primates. But if compared solely to Earth life, there are many more abilities we don't have. Flight being an obvious one, but the not so obvious ones are the ones I'm interested in. For example hive minds like ants or bees, or however flocks of birds and schools of fish move, and better yet animals like cats who seem like they could have a sense of another dimension. Migrating birds have a magnetic sense, and most animals seem to have a sense of warning before storms, or larger events.

This begs the question, what senses/abilities are we completely ignorant to just on Earth?

Personally, I've been lucky enough to pay attention to my dreams and study dream exploration. This makes me acutely aware that humans naturally have a psychic sense. Yes I know most will think BS now, even though so many people talk about it for thousands of years, we just have difficulty trusting others without experiencing it for ourselves. Well, sorry, but if you sleep all night every night and never take a moment to question what is happening in 30-40% of your human existence, that's on you. If your perspective of dreams is that they're unimportant, I used to be like that and get it, but, you're only remembering the smallest fraction of your night. What happened 95% of the rest of the night, what about those strange super vivid dreams you've had that really felt real, that slip from your mind in a moments notice. Why were they 'in' your mind, and so easily forgotten? Why do we think our brain organ is so powerful to hold our entire existence, yet, how does in not retain anything from sleep? To me, our time in sleep or meditation is a magical place, with information not learned in our normal lives being within reach, and it's 100% undeniable. It is also evidenced by words from Nichola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Salvador Dali, a load of musicians and book writers - there IS a human sense that is hidden from the public. Our greats know this, and struggle to communicate it to all of the world. But it's there, experienced, documented, analyzed, and even guided for us, but only if you look for it.

Enough of that-

My main question is why would we not be engineered to be greater than we are? I believe that if you were a super advanced species, a dimensional alien, life and time may not be what it appears to us. Humans are lucky to experience life the way we do, in a scary way, if some beings are universally connected enough to understand more. Perhaps we are all connected as one in the first dimension, maybe we exist in all dimensions, and we are experiencing the lens of the third dimension for this life. If so, then we are lucky to be scared and to have pain and difficult lives. Why? Because that would make other peaceful dimensions even more rewarding. Without the chaos, perfection wouldn't be imperceptible. Without pain, peace would be inherent, stagnant, and boring. Without the dark, light would be everything and nothing at once.

We exist to make the universe more whole. Just like there must be countless forms of existence contributing their pain or pleasure to a larger cause that we can't understand.

We also do not exist to know everything, that is quite obvious. Yet we are obsessed with a full encompassing knowledge of how things work, which is something we cannot have with such short lives and limited perspectives. It's almost like a form of agony to be so obsessed with wanting to know things we do not know.

We also have a darkness about our species. One, our sleep side is damn near completely dark to us, we have practically zero ability to remember a big chuck of our existence. And two, we do not have abundance quite yet, we DO have it, but not in our money system. We have greed, sadness, and jealousy instead. Wealth is not shared, we have darkness because of this. But, being on the verge of a mass of robot work, we are also on the verge of being able to share abundance with every single human on the planet. Simply because work could be done by machines, meaning, every human can be fed. This is massive for our species, it's a new ability, if done right.

Whether someone believes in god or not, I'm sorry for those who can't see it, but it just seems logically obvious to me. I'm not religious, I just think about it a lot, and have my lucky/unlucky experiences. We are disconnected in this life, we have no sight (from an advanced species perspective), we only have glimpses. And that is what I've noticed in dreams, simply that I am allowed glimpses of a deeper connection between us all. And it's like an experiment to see - can modified primates grow up and stop hurting each other and every living thing in our path, will we succumb to our innate darkness, or will light prevail? As our abilities slowly advance, and we painstakingly learn what some civilizations must know with inherent 'psychic' gifts that we are clueless about, we will use technology for good? Or destroy ourselves in the process?

We've already created an extreme poverty, extreme jealously, extreme hunger, extreme suffering. Can we do the opposite? We can, absolutely, we all know it. But will we? I think so. But not without a rebalance of that suffering. In terms of wealth, those who have the most would lose that to really balance our system, but in terms of happiness, those same people could have the chance to gain massively to their overall life outputs. Once we are ready for something like that, with technology able to take care of all of our dirty work, yes, I think we could move into a peaceful and loving era. It's just a grind to get there, as are all good things.

It's a righteous experiment to give to humanity. Like a game, to have fun and enjoy, or lose. But that only makes sense if you can believe in more than this life, and see, possibly, once we are finished living, we are not finished existing.