John Power:
@Jake WM: Keep me posted on your progress and let me know if you have any insights in the territory

@Eric MW: Yes it is just like a haze. It is just a matter of words. How have you progressed in this territory?
I would consider my progress atypical... I kicked around the DN pretty hardcore for about a year. I was looking at a Huichol mandala in a book about shamanism that had white and black faces around a circle. I somehow felt that the white faces were living and the black faces were dead, but they were on the same circle. Then I thought "Well, of course they are, life and death are different forms of the same thing." A knot immediately untied in my chest, a fog lifted, and I was quite clearly in Equanimity.
I dropped off the progress of insight after that, because I wasn't actively meditating and didn't know the maps. I'm still in the same spot, hoping to cross A&P again sometime soon.