This is my answer to the question How does it feel to experience the state of nirvana? on Quora.

I reached enlightment by four separate steps of insight while I was 17-18 years. Each and every of these insights where filled with a joyous, fantastic feeling of bliss together with amazement and oneness with everything. A great feeling.

The thing is that I didn’t fully realize that I was enlightened. Yeah, from time to time I thought that I might have reached nirvana, but I didn’t thing so much about it. It is not a big deal to me, since I am not a Buddhist. It hasn’t been until the recent years of my life, that I have realized that I am enlightened (I am 38 now).

So, the feeling of discovering enlightment is hilarious (at least it was for me). It’s like ten thousands orgasms.

But being enlightened is totally empty. It doesn’t make you feel anything. It curbs feeling, although curbing is the wrong way to express it. It is the feeling of nothingness.