It might be a state you enter that is out of the ordinary, not like your usual experience. Those states, if they come and go, can’t be enlightenment. Enlightenment can’t be a product of causes, can’t come and go. It is supremely ordinary in a way :).

“It is incorrect to think that Nirvāṇa is the natural result of the extinction of craving. Nirvāṇa is not the result of anything. If it would be a result, then it would be an effect produced by a cause. It would be saṃkhata ‘produced’ and ‘conditioned’. Nirvāṇa is neither cause nor effect. It is beyond cause and effect. Truth is not a result nor an effect. It is not produced like a mystic, spiritual, mental state, such as dhyāna or samādhi. TRUTH IS. NIRVĀṆA IS. The only thing you can do is to see it, to realize it. There is a path leading to the realization of Nirvāṇa. But Nirvāṇa is not the result of this path You may get to the mountain along a path, but the mountain is not the result, not an effect of the path. You may see a light, but the light not the result of your eyesight.”

The Third Noble Truth - Walpola Rahula: What the Buddha Taught

But sometimes these states do carry something of the message or blessings of enlightenment. Other times they are just distractions.

Either way, where it can go wrong is if you start to try to find ways to reproduce it. Once it becomes a state you try to reproduce, it becomes an effect you are trying to cause. It becomes like a child hitting their head against a wall to try to se stars. Once that happens, then you can spiral into hitting your head harder and harder until you see really bright stars - that’s doing nobody any good. Even if it is genuinely carrying something of the message of non self or enlightenment or whatever it is.

Generally the best thing to do when you get unusual experiences that seem in some way “spiritual” is to just recognize them as experiences. Okay today I stubbed my toe. And yesterday I got this unusual state of mind I’ve never encountered before. Just accept them both as states that arise, and then pass away. A good teacher would help you there, how to deal with it.

There may be a message sometimes of some sort. If so, well it will come back in its own time. A good teacher may help you in other ways at this point. But it’s not easy to do much yourself, because as soon as you feel you can achieve something using this experience, that becomes a spiritual accomplishment, or something you create and possess, which for a Buddhist anyway - that’s leading you away from the path. A teacher helps by being someone else who is not you who can lead you in a fresh direction, but it’s very hard to do that at that point by yourself.

Basically you need a sense of humour. Okay I’m bound to get funny states from time to time. And sometimes I’m bound to start treating them and myself as special because of those states. This happens to everyone at some point if they do any work with their mind including meditation or just deep contemplation. Can happen sometimes from listening to music, or art, or just looking at a flower. Indeed in some traditions they say these sorts of experiences are happening all the time, but we just don’t notice it or immediately forget them. There’s nothing special about any of it. Nor is there anything special about enlightenment. In some traditions again the ay they put this is that the number of Buddhas way outnumbers ordinary beings. Nearly everyone is enlightened already and we are the few dumb ones left who have somehow not managed to “get it” after countless trillions of lifetimes.

That thought can help one to not treat such experiences as special, and to maybe be open to the path and to finding a direction. While if you treat them as special you’ll maybe never get any closer. It can become a very big impediment indeed for those who fixate too much on it. My teacher once told us that the sickness of clinging to illusory ideas of self is difficult to deal with - but the sickness of clinging to illusory realizations of non self is extremely hard to deal with - because you have turned the medicine that could cure you into a sickneses itself.

So, it just needs a light touch. Which is where a teacher can really help, that’s one of the main roles of a teacher I think. I don’t mean a guru though that is also the main role of a guru too if I understand it right (I don’t have a guru) - but just a teacher who is not yourself. can help a lot. Without a teacher, just a sense of humour and a light touch will help a lot.

If you haven’t read Walpola Rahula’s little book “What the Buddha taught” you may find it helps a lot to be a bit more grounded about such things. The Third Noble Truth - Walpola Rahula: What the Buddha Taught