Is change like a series of steps….
or a continuous flow, like a river….
Bergson writes, in Creative Evolution
The apparent discontinuity of the psychical life is then due to our attention being fixed on it by a series of separate acts : actually there is only a gentle slope; but in following the broken line of our acts of attention, we think we perceive separate steps.
So, reality is continuously changing. It really is a flow of becoming…….
Heroes Not Zombies 
And sometimes it feels like an escalator, you seem to be standing still on the same step forever, and then suddenly you’re at the top! 😉
Sometimes it feels like being part of an all pervasive cloud which gets larger and larger until you feel like the whole cloud and in all things. Either everything is beautiful or so awful it hurts – like wars and disease.