"enlightening experience" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe a situation that has had the effect of broadening one's awareness or knowledge. For example: "It was an enlightening experience to travel to a different country and learn more about their culture.".
It was the painstaking, frustrating and enlightening experience of psychotherapy that first took me to Buddhist practice.
MR: Overall, was it an enlightening experience?
The servers of DOTA 2 will likely never show me an enlightening experience as happened with Jedi Academy, but I don't care because games are once again bringing me closer to people and teaching me how to love myself.
Watching one episode of So You Think You Can Dance? is a more relevant and culturally enlightening experience than walking around a museum where, let's face it, you're only pretending to understand half the art anyways, to say nothing of watching one of the many hypertensive cable dramas that populate summer television schedules.
They will aim to set the bar high and offer stimulating and enlightening experiences.
Gerami said her few months' struggle had been "one of the most surreal, enriching, enlightening experiences" of her life.
"One of the most spiritual, beautiful, and enlightening experiences of my life," he says, "was when I got a chance to swim naked in Hawaii among 100 to 150 bottle-nosed dolphins".
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