Again you want to become skilled enough that you can enter this state and remain in it for 10 to 15 minutes before moving on. By passing entirely beyond the Sphere of No-Thingness, one reaches and remains in the Sphere of Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception. (DN 33.1.11.7) There is not much in the way of instructions or even description of the sphere of neither perception nor nonperception. “Perception” is a translation of the Pali word saññā. Saññā often refers to your capacity to label things, to identify them, to look them up in your database of objects and give them a name.
