One more thought...
While you are out in that wonderful space you describe at night. Try this state of non thought. As sounds happen, don't shift to "listen", just hold that emptiness. Experience the breeze, but don't shift to feeling it in a thinking sense..In a sense you do hear and feel,,but it is easy to shift, perhaps through some mind activity, and leave that stillness or emptiness. You can experience all those things, but still base in that stillness. Hard to describe!