For myself I experience and formulate this as:
Not one little "i" that changes colour, but many little "i"s who are most of the time not aware of one another.

.. the material of the hundreds of little "i"s does serve as cleansing & building material as well as a wake up call for the real "I".
Though more could be said here.

Indeed.

What you said here reminded me of Eckhardt Tolle :)