Blindly Sinking (Part 2 added)
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:18 pm
Author's Note: So I decided to try something cool with my writing this time. No, the quicksand isn't made of lava, or web, or enchanted stuff, no, I took a twist in a different way. Also, there isn't a full submersion, or anything close to that, but I wanted to make the story feel real, without putting in anything that would say it's from our world or somewhere else.
If you want me to write more of this unknown first person character, just say so, and I'll definitely see what I can do. Without further ado, let us begin.
I was walking through the woods, like any other day I would do so. My bare, callused feet felt every colorless twig and colorless blade of grass below. The birds chirped their beautiful song, despite me not knowing what color they were. The wind breezes through my waist length hair. Colorless hair, soft, smooth, and straight, but for all I knew, it could be blonde, brunette, or even red, but I doubt it was red because then my skin would burn up from the sun. However, others told me it was brown, whatever that meant.
After a long hard day, I heard the rushing of the river, and headed towards it for some relaxation. I knew I was going the right way when the ground got softer and the water got louder. The soft squishy ground was a nice change for what it normally was, so I continued onward, unaware that ahead of me was a clearing that I never explored before.
After a few soft and squishy steps of paradise, I place my foot into what seemed like bread dough, the foot falling into and being constricted by the billowy ground itself, the muck slurping as I fell forward, fear filling my split second thoughts. Trying to get my balance, which for my condition, was somewhat hard to do sometimes, I placed my left foot into the soft and squishy muck to balance, right up to my ankles.
Any other person would have said they were trapped, but due to my heightened senses, I could tell there was a lot of weight spread out across the surface of the ground, along with the suction of the mud, holding my feet in place. I could feel each individual grain in the mud, in a fluid state, pressing against my feet like trillions of tiny fingers, eager to grab me and pull me down.
The force of gravity was also at work, as I could feel my body being pulled down ever so slowly, billions of grains of wet mud inching up my ankles as the wind blew through the colorless trees. At the moment, I was indifferent to it, just stuck. Any force I applied to one foot to pull it out immediately caused an equal force to drag the other one deeper. Experimenting with micro movements, I found that going back and forth was counterproductive.
I thought for a moment which leg had more strength. I assumed it to be my right leg. I kneeled down on my left leg, spreading out my weight to get better balance, and just focused on getting my right leg out. To balance, I placed my hands into the muck, the slimy grip screaming all over my palms and wrists. Not necessarily in a bad way, it felt alright. The pressure of the mud felt enjoyable though.
This was not without incessant squishing, the smell of mud being flung heavily into the air due to my movements, and my mouth tasting the sweat dripping from my face onto my lip in my world without color. It wasn't a lot of sweat, but due to being sensitive, this amount of sweat was very noticeable.
Slow and steady wins the race, as my leg was slowly being pulled out of the heavy thick sludge. This mud had to have some percent of its makeup made up of clay, that much was certain. Maybe it was clay. When everything lacks color and just black everywhere, you can't really tell difference between different materials that just felt the same.
At least, I assume what I could see was black, as that's what others described it as. Honestly, I could sorta see, not with my eyes, but more with my ears. I didn't have perfect 20/20 vision with my ears, but based on how echoey a room was, or the lack thereof, down the tiniest detail, I could slightly avoid walking into walls. Walking into flat ground that turned out to be mud, however, isn't really avoidable when you can't rely on your eyes.
As these thoughts repeated themselves over in my head, I could feel my right leg making progress on making it out, the hot sun beating onto my hair as my left leg on its knee sunk enough that my shorts soaked into the mud, the fabric being muddied and clinging to my skin being very apparent and easily sensed by body.
The lack of vision wasn't the only thing that stimulated my sense. I also had autism. Which meant, every tap on my skin was a slam, every scratch a screech, the smell of poop being a sewer, and any spicy foods were just ghost peppers in my mind.
As for actual versions of those things, slams, screeches, sewers, and ghost peppers, they could cause something known as sensory overload, especially considering my lack of vision made it multiply those senses even more. So getting stuck in some mud, while for you it may feel like just being stuck, but not very much, for me, it felt as though I was grabbed and trapped in a vice bondage from the mud, escape feeling like insane amounts of effort was required to escape.
I'm not saying that neurotypical people, or people without autism, could escape easier, but rather that I felt everything more intensely, as compared to my peers. I remember one time someone asked me how many fingers they were holding up, and I just grabbed their hand, felt it, and told them 3 fingers were up. They paused, thinking I was cheating, but definitely believed that my eyesight showed nothing but black.
That was a pretty funny experience, to be fair. It just reminds me of-
PLOP!
I felt my foot pop out as I was lost in my thoughts, and almost lost my balance. My left foot was up to it’s mid thigh, approximately halfway between my knee and my waist, the soaking mud clinging to my colorless shorts. With a floating foot, the birds chirping was an omen that I was going to be free soon. Or at least, that's what I believed. With my hovering foot, I reached behind me, and instead of trying to use my foot, which was upside down, I had the clever idea of using my shin, or the part of the leg between the foot and the knee, to get steady, and pull my left leg out once I finally caught my breath. Or stopped thinking, more likely than not.
Breathing deeply, my body seemed to stabilize a little. My left leg was still sinking, the mud up 2/3rd of the way to my elbows, between my hands and elbows. However, my right leg wasn't sinking at all, just sitting in soft ground. Having stable ground, and not just bottomless slime, I attempted to pull my arms out, the muck slowly relinquishing it’s prize. And indeed, because I could not perceive the bottom, it was indeed seen as bottomless. Not to say that it went to the center of the planet, but that the bottom was not discovered, so it was without a bottom; it was bottomless.
I tried to be careful pulling my arms out as to not put more pressure on my left leg, as it was already pretty stuck, and forcing it deeper wasn't ideal to me. I was supposed to be resting, but I was just taking my arms out first, the cool summer breeze rustling my hair just as much as the leaves on the trees. The sucking at my arms as I slowly squeezed them out of the muck was somewhat enjoyable, but that wasn't my focus right now.
My wrists were out, then I fell back a bit with my torso and my hands landed on the ground to my right. Soft, but solid ground. I tested as I pondered on other things. For my vision being black, I did see the black taking on different blobby appearances. Scientists called them phosphenes, others more skilled in auras called them chakras. Did they have color? I didn't know what that was, so I couldn't describe what it was. For what I was told, it just looked “black” to me, whatever black was. I was just told that black was what I saw. Regardless, it was just a bunch of nothing that told me nothing of my environment, so I didn't really pay attention to it. Only when I was bored.
With my hands supporting my weight to the right of my torso, I lifted my right arms and started doodling mud onto my left arm. This was relaxing. Even if I didn't get to swim and wash off my sweat right now, this mud wasn't half bad. Stuck, yes, but this was nice, like mud yoga, if such a thing existed. They should honestly make mud yoga, that would be fun. They could use mud instead of bean bags for those parts they needed to weigh you down somewhere, except a light bean bag would still cover your eyes. That would be so nice-
An electrical feeling instantly shocked through my body originating from my groin as the mud touched there. More of a sexual feeling, but those seemed pretty similar. I was stunned from what just happened, as the mud touched my groin. A bit invasive, but seeing as no one was around, or just no one making noise or smells or vibrations, I felt secluded enough to explore this feeling. So I did the thing you aren't supposed to do in deep mud, and that was pushing down. Which was followed by pushing up. My shorts were kinda in the way, but humping against solid yet fluid ground was more enjoyable than I ever expected it to be. Maybe if I escaped, I could strip down, and enjoy it better?
The problem was, I was still stuck, and now the muck was luring me in. Sighing, I decided I had enough of it for now, and needed to escape if I wanted to strip down to enjoy it better. I pulled on my left leg, and pointed it downward instead of keeping it in the half kneeled down position. This way, I could exert less force pulling it out. However, in doing so, I learned the mud was deeper than waist deep. Still bottomless to me.
Exerting force to escape was very tiring. I tried to get more horizontal to escape. I was probably gonna be a mess by the time I got out, but I couldn't see that, only others. To me, I was just a colorless blob with bones to keep it together, with some clothes and hair, and other stuff. My callused feet were as such since it helped me to perceive when I walked barefoot. Yes, it hurt when I stepped on a sharp rock, but the more that happened, the less it hurt.
I pulled on my leg, it was just at the knee now, and was more horizontal than before. The slurping and sucking, the smell of the mire, the hot breeze, the sun setting, of which I knew was happening due to the temperature getting colder and my internal clock keeping track of that.
SHHHHLLLLLLLLLL-URP!
My leg was free. I backed away from that spot, as to not get trapped again, but kept mental detail as to where this was generally. I was muddy and tired, and decided to go home.
Would I return? Perhaps, if I felt incentivized enough to. I definitely wanted to try sinking into naked if that was an option.
Author's note: If you couldn't tell by now, she is blind. And don't forget to tell me if you want me to make more!
-Solrex
If you want me to write more of this unknown first person character, just say so, and I'll definitely see what I can do. Without further ado, let us begin.
I was walking through the woods, like any other day I would do so. My bare, callused feet felt every colorless twig and colorless blade of grass below. The birds chirped their beautiful song, despite me not knowing what color they were. The wind breezes through my waist length hair. Colorless hair, soft, smooth, and straight, but for all I knew, it could be blonde, brunette, or even red, but I doubt it was red because then my skin would burn up from the sun. However, others told me it was brown, whatever that meant.
After a long hard day, I heard the rushing of the river, and headed towards it for some relaxation. I knew I was going the right way when the ground got softer and the water got louder. The soft squishy ground was a nice change for what it normally was, so I continued onward, unaware that ahead of me was a clearing that I never explored before.
After a few soft and squishy steps of paradise, I place my foot into what seemed like bread dough, the foot falling into and being constricted by the billowy ground itself, the muck slurping as I fell forward, fear filling my split second thoughts. Trying to get my balance, which for my condition, was somewhat hard to do sometimes, I placed my left foot into the soft and squishy muck to balance, right up to my ankles.
Any other person would have said they were trapped, but due to my heightened senses, I could tell there was a lot of weight spread out across the surface of the ground, along with the suction of the mud, holding my feet in place. I could feel each individual grain in the mud, in a fluid state, pressing against my feet like trillions of tiny fingers, eager to grab me and pull me down.
The force of gravity was also at work, as I could feel my body being pulled down ever so slowly, billions of grains of wet mud inching up my ankles as the wind blew through the colorless trees. At the moment, I was indifferent to it, just stuck. Any force I applied to one foot to pull it out immediately caused an equal force to drag the other one deeper. Experimenting with micro movements, I found that going back and forth was counterproductive.
I thought for a moment which leg had more strength. I assumed it to be my right leg. I kneeled down on my left leg, spreading out my weight to get better balance, and just focused on getting my right leg out. To balance, I placed my hands into the muck, the slimy grip screaming all over my palms and wrists. Not necessarily in a bad way, it felt alright. The pressure of the mud felt enjoyable though.
This was not without incessant squishing, the smell of mud being flung heavily into the air due to my movements, and my mouth tasting the sweat dripping from my face onto my lip in my world without color. It wasn't a lot of sweat, but due to being sensitive, this amount of sweat was very noticeable.
Slow and steady wins the race, as my leg was slowly being pulled out of the heavy thick sludge. This mud had to have some percent of its makeup made up of clay, that much was certain. Maybe it was clay. When everything lacks color and just black everywhere, you can't really tell difference between different materials that just felt the same.
At least, I assume what I could see was black, as that's what others described it as. Honestly, I could sorta see, not with my eyes, but more with my ears. I didn't have perfect 20/20 vision with my ears, but based on how echoey a room was, or the lack thereof, down the tiniest detail, I could slightly avoid walking into walls. Walking into flat ground that turned out to be mud, however, isn't really avoidable when you can't rely on your eyes.
As these thoughts repeated themselves over in my head, I could feel my right leg making progress on making it out, the hot sun beating onto my hair as my left leg on its knee sunk enough that my shorts soaked into the mud, the fabric being muddied and clinging to my skin being very apparent and easily sensed by body.
The lack of vision wasn't the only thing that stimulated my sense. I also had autism. Which meant, every tap on my skin was a slam, every scratch a screech, the smell of poop being a sewer, and any spicy foods were just ghost peppers in my mind.
As for actual versions of those things, slams, screeches, sewers, and ghost peppers, they could cause something known as sensory overload, especially considering my lack of vision made it multiply those senses even more. So getting stuck in some mud, while for you it may feel like just being stuck, but not very much, for me, it felt as though I was grabbed and trapped in a vice bondage from the mud, escape feeling like insane amounts of effort was required to escape.
I'm not saying that neurotypical people, or people without autism, could escape easier, but rather that I felt everything more intensely, as compared to my peers. I remember one time someone asked me how many fingers they were holding up, and I just grabbed their hand, felt it, and told them 3 fingers were up. They paused, thinking I was cheating, but definitely believed that my eyesight showed nothing but black.
That was a pretty funny experience, to be fair. It just reminds me of-
PLOP!
I felt my foot pop out as I was lost in my thoughts, and almost lost my balance. My left foot was up to it’s mid thigh, approximately halfway between my knee and my waist, the soaking mud clinging to my colorless shorts. With a floating foot, the birds chirping was an omen that I was going to be free soon. Or at least, that's what I believed. With my hovering foot, I reached behind me, and instead of trying to use my foot, which was upside down, I had the clever idea of using my shin, or the part of the leg between the foot and the knee, to get steady, and pull my left leg out once I finally caught my breath. Or stopped thinking, more likely than not.
Breathing deeply, my body seemed to stabilize a little. My left leg was still sinking, the mud up 2/3rd of the way to my elbows, between my hands and elbows. However, my right leg wasn't sinking at all, just sitting in soft ground. Having stable ground, and not just bottomless slime, I attempted to pull my arms out, the muck slowly relinquishing it’s prize. And indeed, because I could not perceive the bottom, it was indeed seen as bottomless. Not to say that it went to the center of the planet, but that the bottom was not discovered, so it was without a bottom; it was bottomless.
I tried to be careful pulling my arms out as to not put more pressure on my left leg, as it was already pretty stuck, and forcing it deeper wasn't ideal to me. I was supposed to be resting, but I was just taking my arms out first, the cool summer breeze rustling my hair just as much as the leaves on the trees. The sucking at my arms as I slowly squeezed them out of the muck was somewhat enjoyable, but that wasn't my focus right now.
My wrists were out, then I fell back a bit with my torso and my hands landed on the ground to my right. Soft, but solid ground. I tested as I pondered on other things. For my vision being black, I did see the black taking on different blobby appearances. Scientists called them phosphenes, others more skilled in auras called them chakras. Did they have color? I didn't know what that was, so I couldn't describe what it was. For what I was told, it just looked “black” to me, whatever black was. I was just told that black was what I saw. Regardless, it was just a bunch of nothing that told me nothing of my environment, so I didn't really pay attention to it. Only when I was bored.
With my hands supporting my weight to the right of my torso, I lifted my right arms and started doodling mud onto my left arm. This was relaxing. Even if I didn't get to swim and wash off my sweat right now, this mud wasn't half bad. Stuck, yes, but this was nice, like mud yoga, if such a thing existed. They should honestly make mud yoga, that would be fun. They could use mud instead of bean bags for those parts they needed to weigh you down somewhere, except a light bean bag would still cover your eyes. That would be so nice-
An electrical feeling instantly shocked through my body originating from my groin as the mud touched there. More of a sexual feeling, but those seemed pretty similar. I was stunned from what just happened, as the mud touched my groin. A bit invasive, but seeing as no one was around, or just no one making noise or smells or vibrations, I felt secluded enough to explore this feeling. So I did the thing you aren't supposed to do in deep mud, and that was pushing down. Which was followed by pushing up. My shorts were kinda in the way, but humping against solid yet fluid ground was more enjoyable than I ever expected it to be. Maybe if I escaped, I could strip down, and enjoy it better?
The problem was, I was still stuck, and now the muck was luring me in. Sighing, I decided I had enough of it for now, and needed to escape if I wanted to strip down to enjoy it better. I pulled on my left leg, and pointed it downward instead of keeping it in the half kneeled down position. This way, I could exert less force pulling it out. However, in doing so, I learned the mud was deeper than waist deep. Still bottomless to me.
Exerting force to escape was very tiring. I tried to get more horizontal to escape. I was probably gonna be a mess by the time I got out, but I couldn't see that, only others. To me, I was just a colorless blob with bones to keep it together, with some clothes and hair, and other stuff. My callused feet were as such since it helped me to perceive when I walked barefoot. Yes, it hurt when I stepped on a sharp rock, but the more that happened, the less it hurt.
I pulled on my leg, it was just at the knee now, and was more horizontal than before. The slurping and sucking, the smell of the mire, the hot breeze, the sun setting, of which I knew was happening due to the temperature getting colder and my internal clock keeping track of that.
SHHHHLLLLLLLLLL-URP!
My leg was free. I backed away from that spot, as to not get trapped again, but kept mental detail as to where this was generally. I was muddy and tired, and decided to go home.
Would I return? Perhaps, if I felt incentivized enough to. I definitely wanted to try sinking into naked if that was an option.
Author's note: If you couldn't tell by now, she is blind. And don't forget to tell me if you want me to make more!
-Solrex