shy cat, I used to know someone who had an experience that sounded quite a bit like what you have described. I met him a few years after he had the experience. By the time I met him, he had become somewhat bitter and dissatisfied with his life because everything he had experienced since what he considered a period of enlightenment, seemed pale and flat by comparison. He felt very cheated because he couldn't have that experience of enlightenment every day, or at least he perceived that he couldn't

It wasn't my experience so it wasn't really my place to try to interpret its meaning or purpose for him, but I always felt that maybe he'd had that experience to show him what was possible, and that it was up to him to make it a part of his everyday life. But like I said, it wasn't my experience, so I can only guess.