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Oh wow, great question.

Before I lost my sight, I was really negative about my appearance. I didn't want anyone to look at me for any reason, I tried to hide behind my hair and in my clothes. No matter what I did - make up, clothes, weight - I was unhappy with how I looked.

Being blind, I've learned to embrace the fact that people will stare. I'm different, now, people notice the disabled. My way of thinking has changed from "I'm not here" to "They're going to stare, anyway, might as well give them something to look at". I wear whatever the hell I want, go out whenever I want, eat whatever I want, and pretty much do whatever I want (except drive, I guess) like a damn lady :P I don't care much for what's in-style and put on make up only when I feel like it.

My perception of other people's attractiveness and beauty has also changed. Well-spoken people who smell nice are very attractive to me. My SO has a decent set of biceps and large hands, which I find very sexy - but I've always liked an articulate set of hands. I also like small breasts, though I don't get to see them anymore and touching them is out of the question as I'm in a monogamous relationship with a man.

I don't care for a lot of popular actors because they can't act - or, at least, they don't emote through their voices and that's very.. unnerving as well as annoying. It sounds monotone after a while. I used to love movies (still do, really) but I've gained a lot of respect for the theatre - you can't always tell when someone opens a door or walks through a room in a movie like you can in a play.

Sorry, that kinda got away from me there and I don't think I really answered your question but I hope that helped :)

I do dream, everyone does. That's just a side effect from REM.

My dreams are a hodgepodge of things - sometimes how I see now & and sometimes how I used to see things & sometimes there are no visuals at all. Everything else is the same as how you dream: smells, sounds, random people you haven't talked to, bizarre situations that would never happen IRL to anyone, etc... And, sometimes when you sleep, there are no dreams or at least none that you remember.

I'm starting to get into Marvel films. All of their movies have an audio description track, it's quite.. well, marvellous.

A descriptive audio track describes the action happening on a visual media (ballet, play, movie, tv show) during the pauses in dialogue. Sometimes they're very helpful, other times they're very annoying.

Here's a sample.

Here's another sample.

They're only trailers, but I think they display the gist of it