The more closely you look at something the more you see that it is not there in any substantial way, it couldn't be. Not to understand that our designations are designations, that they do not refer to anything in particular, is to mistake emptiness. When you look closely for anything and find that you can't find it, you do discover that although the thing itself seems to be void, there do seem to be connections. In fact connection is all you find, with no things that are connected. So everything is empty and connected, or empty because connected.
Emptiness is connection.
Yes, in that experience does occur, and no in that the experience that occurs is radically not what you think it is. The Heart Sutra says there are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body and no mind. But eyes and ears as they exist deconstructed in emptiness can't be possessed. They are inherently dispossessed, even of themselves. Emptiness is freedom.