If you wonder what awakening feels like...

[Kensho]

...go on youtube and watch some videos of colorblind people who see color for the first time wearing those Enchroma glasses. 

[Kensho]

There is a big difference though...

Only 8% of men and only 0.5% of women are colorblind, so here we have a case of the vast majority of people watching a minority seeing the 'normal' for the first time, where 'normal' is what most humans see. Unlike other cases , the 'normal' here is a far richer experience and objectively better, bringing the individuals to tears due to the beauty of colors, nature etc. (some animals get it even better than humans), so we could say that the majority has it better, knows better, has a better experience than the minority.

Now imagine the opposite. The 0.5% watching the other 99.5% not being able to see the beauty. Things get complicated. 

When 99 people go to someone and tell him "We are sorry but there is a problem in your eyes so you cannot see what we can see, it's a scientific fact and blah-blah" , he has no other option but to believe them. On the contrary, if one person goes to 99 and tell them that they are ignorant of what's going on, they ll call him crazy. As Plato wrote in his allegory of the cave, they can even kill him.