Hey 
(@FrankN I got so sick of my own BS that I stopped writing hahahaha. It is very easy to get caught up in actualist identity on here… I decided I’d only write if I had interesting stuff to report! And today I do so here goes.)
Tonight I had the most mind blowing EE. I know PCEs are meant to be the OG, but EEs are absolutely fantastic as well and definitely nothing to sneeze at - this one has showed me that this whole actualism “goal” of mine truly is possible (and also how irredeemably sad/sorrowful the human condition is by comparison). I also feel more of a duty in a sense in that this has to change (!!!).
Lately I’ve been trying to calm myself down a lot. I tend to be a high stress type of person and it’s taken a while to get out of the chronic stress condition I’ve mentioned I developed a couple of years ago. These days I sleep well almost every night and don’t have any kind of stress attacks which is awesome. But with having become so aware of how I feel each moment again, it’s clear that even the average person, just like myself, is mostly always restless and unable to sit still/properly relax. So I’ve been challenging myself to put my phone down and do nothing for hours at a time - which I am having success with, including having intermittent naps, which are lovely as well.
As a weird kind of tip, I’d say it’s good for people pursuing actualism to be able to do nothing for long periods and also to be able to nap. If you can’t do those things than having peak experiences is probably not going to be that easy maybe (just a theory).
It’s hard to describe an EE that well, but basically I was lying with my eyes open for ages after a nap and then I started reading about PCEs and Richard’s “activating delight” thing (Topics – Pure Consciousness Experience). I just imagined how that would be, and I realised to experience delight I’d have to feel a lot more awake and alive. I can’t describe how it happened except to say that I started living that or experiencing that - the combination of felicity and sensuousness. I went outside and the night sky was just incredible, magically ornamented with stars and I was surrounded by these most alive trees. It went on from there as I was driving but it’s kind of hard to remember exactly what I saw - I can only really remember the flavour of it after that. In any case it’s really nice that I’ve now had two solid experiences that are similar (I had a very similar and awesome peak experience at work last year) so I can say with confidence that I’m pretty sure this is what an EE is. Traits: - very very felicitous - naïveté occurs naturally and everything around is amazing - absence of feeling in control - quite dynamic in nature (whereas I think PCEs are more static).
Anyway it’s just unbelievable really, that this is all possible (even temporarily let alone permanently!). I can feel myself back in the drivers seat and there is a general weighty-ness/burden to being/doing as normal but I’m a lot more happy than usual post this event which is likely me as an identity being happy that I was able to “achieve” what I’ve been trying to do for a long time. I do think it can be distressing at times being an actualist and feeling like one isn’t able to do what’s necessary to “escape”. My only advice there is to keep calm, like having a goal in mind that one gently and patiently goes toward. Try not to be like me who has had a tendency to send my whole system into major stress trying to make everything happen 
. I’m not sure to what extent being was absent in this experience - when you feel that felicitous and naive it’s so much better than the norm that you really do feel very free and “weightless”.
I’m now wondering how close I could get to the EE just in every day life. Despite my now being very habituated with asking HAIETMOBA, I’m still a long way off a constant EE. The EE has really viscerally reminded me of what’s possible, whereas I think usually I just revert to normal and forget that this really does work to take you somewhere very very different.
I’d be interested to hear from either of you guys @geoffrey @Srinath as to whether you ever got your baseline up that high (as to be in a constant EE)? Even when I’ve got myself into a good mood it is still so far from what this was…I do my best to not get triggered but that keeps me more in neutral. Being just seems to have a natural “revert to neutral” function or otherwise I’ve just not been aiming high enough? This experience was of being overjoyed and absolutely delighted on the affective level and has reminded me of something much higher to aim for.
Cheers people, keep going! 