Hello,

I've been meditating seriously for over a year now, and my best guess is that I hit SE about 6 months ago. I've experienced some noticeable shifts in my practice since then. Each shift seems to make the practice easier on one hand, but subtler, so harder to keep track. Maybe they have something to do with middle paths, but I'm not really sure about anything.

Lately I've been interested in emptiness and direct path. I was watching Greg Goode interview in BATGAB, and he said something about how the memory of a thought created an illusion in time, as if that thought existed somewhere else but in present awareness.

Later that day I went for my daily walking meditation (my main practice, about 45min/day). Near the end, when I was more into the practice, I was walking toward a signpost and started to try to see the relationship between my perception of the signpost and the immediate memory of the signpost.

So I experienced an alternation between these two: perception, memory, perception, memory, etc.. In a few seconds that alternation started accelerating up to the point where it flipped into a continous flow of perception. I thought it was weird, specially because everytime my practice goes deeper, the "perception flickering" tends to be more noticeable, but in this case it was replaced by something continuous-like.

I remained in that state for a while, but I didn't notice when it went away, I just realized after I wasn't in it anymore. That was a few days ago, since then I've discovered that I'm able to replicate the experience with some effort (it just feels a little weird).

So, is it meaningful? Should I pursue it, ignore it, avoid it?

Thanks for any help.