I now use this loud traffic roaring as a backdrop for meditation. The hood is rather noisy often. The walk in Mundy was  superb. one day when i was out of it, way back, I would go to the forbidden trail as I called it (it has no dogs allowed) and sit there and wait for death, convinced it was my time to die. Though out of it, it was wild and wonderful to sit there and explore my mind. And my fears.