Richard Zen:
The profound change is the keeping up with changes in your experience. The trick with insight is to see the thoughts 'trying' and the pain involved with that. Thoughts can't make you experience reality in more detail. Just noticing the vibrations hitting your eye consciousness/ear consciousness etc is enough and keeping acknowledgement with what's happening keeps you from clinging.
Yep. Passages of this happen. Of course, the discursive ray butts in. Its guise is intention trying to self-dislocate. Then I have to relax into, let go of, it--somehow without hiding from or obfuscating it.
On Kenneth Folk's app he advises 2000 notes to reach a peaceful mind-state.
Rapid noting/noticing made me bonkers. I seem to slip easily into "seeing things" and don't stop after I'm off the cushion--vibratory, warping, etc. Hence my landing in the hospital with diagnosis of persistent aura of migraine. I've been thinking, along with others here, that I should try to build up my concentration (which is fabricated overtly) and pay strong attention to metta--that maybe clocking more experience this way will confer some foundational trust that will prevent my so quickly fipping out during mind acceleration. I need to address fear, or maybe live a bit more gradually through it till I let it go. My path goes right through the heart of this fear. I suspect fear is simply a bad habit I formed and feed from delusion.
The refreshing with what's happening really helps in daily life including noting any moods or analysis going on, plus how it feels in the body when appetitive and aversive thoughts appear. These notes of course have to be very gentle and pure bare awareness is better if you can keep it consistent and not solidify in a concentration state or spacing out into stories. Noting helps to keep you honest and helps with noting mind-states and subtle thought manipulation that hasn't been clearly seen before.
This all-day-long noting has become a cultivated habit of the past 2 years--not that I do it or even remember to take the effort to do it constantly, but I do at pretty regular intervals "refresh" with what is happening. The bit about not solidifying or spacing out into storyland is an apt reminder. It is so, so easy for bare awareness to slide down a rabbit hole or two million. Then I alight awareness on that as soon as I catch it and notice the subtle thought manipulation involved at both levels (the rabit hole and the pulling out of said rabit hole), which recognition often seems new, as you say. Of course, I'm paid to be an editor, so I absorb into my editing work for a solid hour at a time, but I rise to take walking breaks and notice every 30 to 60 minutes for 10 minutes. I sit with a meditation group at work during Friday lunches, which is quite lovely.
I was reading some of your practice logs a couple of weeks ago and noticed that you read this book about motivation with conventional world pursuits. Your comment here about noting "appetitive" thoughts reminded me of this. I need to lose a lot of weight that I gained from many years of taking migraine preventive medications that are known to cause rapid massive weight gain via several metabolic mechanisms. I'm seeing a new integrative medicine doctor who is addressing a complex web of genetic and autoimmune health issues. To a large extent, she has to help me rebalance at the cellular level and heal up organ systems for my metabolism and energy to recover. However, maybe it would help, meantime, if I didn't eat like a pig.

In general, my self-regulation is poor with regard to eating, sleeping, expending energy, keeping my home environment uncluttered and nonchaotic. This all my sound petty, but, honestly, it seems to me that my practice ought to help with the mundane level of awareness and its effects, too. Any suggestions appreciated.
It's easy to sit and think about meditation instead of actually meditating.

For sure. I'm cerebral, come from academia. I catch myself reading dharma instead of practicing--all the frigging time. I did once read, while doing so, that reading dharma does "count" as practicing, too.

A few months before the few months leading up to A&P, I did read, read, read dharma books. It seems that this incubation was necessary and helpful, but I am trying to balance theory/method with "the real thing" more and more.