As mentioned in other posts, with enlightenment my visual perception became very much enhanced. My eyes now perceive everything far more vivid, rich, and with high contrast, as if they are Photoshopped. And ecstatic, enchanting feeling accompanies my visual perceptions. The world became so pretty and ecstatic.
An issue was that I used to get so fascinated by the beauty around me and often lost myself in it. In the state of fascination I was forgetting to remember myself. I was lost in the experience, and thus I was in sleep.

The same was true when experiencing a higher states of consciousness. I often lost myself in the beautiful experience of it and forgot to remember myself.

Even when we are experiencing extraordinary spiritual experiences, we need to be aware that there is something in you observing all these experiences, and this, what is observing, is the real you. The experience itself is not you. You are what observes and not what is observed.

It seems that a goal of many spiritual practitioners is to ‘experience’ higher state of consciousness, Samadhi, enlightenment, universal love, oneness, whatever they call. But many people are not aware that these are experiences outside yourself, and that the real you is what is observing these experiences. Even in Samadhi, you need to keep your self-remembering with you. Because that self is you, not the experience, even it might be extraordinary.

Enlightenment is not about reaching and experiencing these extraordinary states of consciousness, but it is a discovery, nurturing, and crystallization of real you, establishment of a permanent ‘I’, a permanent I AM awareness. And all extraordinary experiences will come along with it.