POV from blind character

[Strangebuddy]

I thought it would be fun to have stories where visual cues can't just be typed out so I thought a blind protagonist would be a fun POV. So if he or she wants to talk about their busty girlfriend or endowed boyfriend, they have to describe it in different ways. So taste, touch, smell, and hearing would play a bigger part.

The only caveat for ideas is that I'd like to see a confident blind protagonist. So if you want someone to try and trick them, they see through it:

For example, Blind Dom asks sub to wear specific item of clothing, sub got lazy or just wanted to test them and wore a similar item that was different (material or style) Dom figures it out and gives them a good paddling.

Or, Guy gets off on walking around nude while his hot blind cousin is around. He doesn't try anything but just gets hard walking around her while he is exposed. But one day, she grabs his cock out of nowhere and let's him know she only allows it because she gets off on it to.

And yes, tentacle monsters can definitely be tapped. Actually, it would be pretty cool to read a POV from a blind mass of tentacles.

 

[NotWise]

Your blind protagonist has to find his girlfriend among a group of her friends and sisters. He does it by taste.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Feel and smell work better. All your senses get better when youre blind.

 

[GforGraham]

I think it would be very difficult to write about being blind, and making it believable, if you have not experienced it or checked things in detail with someone who has.
There would be so many small day to day things that could trip up the story.
I have read a story on lit about a blind man with a seeing eye dog. I enjoyed the story but could not believe he was blind or that the dog was selected for training as a dog for the blind. Some things sound real but for a blind person would be deadly: eg dog gets scared of thunder; could never happen. But as I said I really enjoyed the story and how it was written, and read all the chapters presented, because I overlooked some irregular details.

 

[i_would]

What may be a lot easier is to write a story (POV or otherwise) about a sighted character placed in a pitch dark environment. I've done that myself, and it worked out quite OK. The whole thing was interesting and fun to imagine.

I do have a few personal experiences with that - one in an abandoned mine, where the guide took away the lights for a moment, another as participant in "dialogue in the dark", a charity for the blind where sighted people are taken around an absolute lightless room where real world situations are built up. That helped imagining the story a lot.

Those experiences were all a very predictable, closed environment. How a blind person interacts with sighted persons in the normal world, that's a whole different ballgame, and I think pretty hard to imagine for sighted people.

 

[Carnevil9]

What may be a lot easier is to write a story (POV or otherwise) about a sighted character placed in a pitch dark environment.......

How about someone who is temporarily blind, due to an accident? Maybe he was in an explosion or something and his corneas were burned, and he has to keep them bandaged for several weeks. Then blindness would be totally new to him, as it would be if the reader were to suffer it. What sort of erotic adventures he gets into while "out of sight" would be wide open.

Your blind protagonist has to find his girlfriend among a group of her friends and sisters. He does it by taste.

I was in a game, at a nude beach, called "find your mate." A bunch of guys are lined up, and one of their wives is blindfolded and has to figure out which one is her husband. Then they reversed sexes, with a husband having to find his wife in a nude lineup. Most participants did it by touch.

 

[loquere]

I really like the idea of blind POV. Do this!

 

[Hypoxia]

How about someone who is temporarily blind, due to an accident? Maybe he was in an explosion or something and his corneas were burned, and he has to keep them bandaged for several weeks. Then blindness would be totally new to him, as it would be if the reader were to suffer it. What sort of erotic adventures he gets into while "out of sight" would be wide open.

Indeed. For immediacy, it's 1st-person POV. The narrator shares their new blindness with us. I've read a number of non-LIT tales with such a premise. An injury leaves the MC blinded but not bedridden. They explore a new world.

How about period piece ca. 1950-60? S/he inadvertently witness a cornea-searing atmospheric nuclear blast. Hey, let's have both male and female MCs, not necessarily linked. Write of their reactions, and gender differences in how they are treated by others, and yes, their sexual adventures in that distant era. Does one embrace darkness? After vision is restored, does one have a blindfold fetish, or a darkness or brightness phobia, or what?

Different: A psycho-cult (Church of Blind Faith?) pushes induced temporary blindness as a path to ecstasy and enlightenment. Join up, get your eyeballs fried by a UV flash, and grope your way to a new understanding. Enjoy being groped, too. Use 3rd-person omniscient POV to follow the experiences of various acolytes.

Twist on the cult: Someone cheats with a spectral-filtered contact lens on one eye. They witness how Church leaders abuse and exploit newbies. Oh, the humanity!

 

[Carnevil9]

Being blind would of course suck. But.... let's look at the positive aspects. First and foremost: nobody would be ugly! You could happily get it on with the homeliest woman in the world, and be none the wiser! She could be Sofia Loren for all you know!

 

[i_would]

Different: A psycho-cult (Church of Blind Faith?) pushes induced temporary blindness as a path to ecstasy and enlightenment. Join up, get your eyeballs fried by a UV flash, and grope your way to a new understanding.

Just wondering: is that even possible - induced temporary blindness? I mean, beyond a few seconds after being blinded by bright sunlight when coming out of a dark room or so, or the opposite, where your eyes have to adjust to large changes in brightness. UV is known to damage eyes permanently.

Yes, I know, suspension of disbelief and all - but for me at least that only works if there's at least
some sense of probability in it. In this case it'd work much better if the temporary blindness is induced as punishment by a wizard for ogling his daughter or so. After all such a punishment would be quite sensible when done in a world where wizardry and witchcraft exist.

 

[D3vilfish]

I tried writing a story about a blind guy, not 100% POV but without visual elements

You can see the result here