But what is the actual experiencing? It must be something but it can't be anything experienced. It recalls an old vedantic saw: Consciousness is like gold. It has no shape itself but is always found in a certain shape. The shape can change, in fact it can take any shape at all, it can picture anything. But one thing it cannot picture is gold. Gold in the shape of gold, gold whose shape means gold? In fact there are many such conventional shapes, (coins, ingots etc.) shapes that signify, 'this is gold' but only with respect to certain learned conventions, which make it easy to miss the point - like philosophy or phenomenology. But since you only recognise shapes when they are out of gold there must be a recognition of gold which has nothing to do with any shape. It's the substance of what you are seeing in every instance independent of whatever is seen.