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Unfortunately, I haven't experienced it yet.
But my mom and dad went for it.
They described me almost similar experience :)
You might wanna visit below website for details :
https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

That's amazing that they both went. Thanks for the link, I will check it out! The Goenka 'style' meditation retreat is even stricter than the one I went to