Nice choice of a topic John !
Hoods are cool for all the reasons already mentioned. I wish Mistress would put me in one much more often, but she says she likes the feedback she gets from watching my facial expressions and gets turned on by them. I think she has a slight sadistic streak, but she denies it.
I have to admit that I really like being gagged and hooded and having to rely on that manner of communicating with her. Of course I can grunt for emphasis, which she says I'm too good at to begin with. lol A special male talent I suppose.
Anyhow, when in a hood that blocks all light I am completely at her mercy, and that is something we both like. To be bound, and gagged, in any position, and forced to rely on sound to know where she is and what she may be up to really drives home her control of me. As well as making me want to behave better, because she may discipline me when I'm gagged, hooded, isolated and oh so helpless.
She wants me to come up with an earmuff type device that will block out all sound, for further isolation, and that would have ear pieces so she could talk to me via a microphone when she wanted. I'm still working on that. I did try to use our cell phones, which works, but lacks quite a bit in terms of sound quality. I wonder if anyone sells something like that, and that is also affordable.
Kinkish1