Why you don’t like the sound of your own voice | Rébecca Kleinberger?

You don’t like the sound of your own voice because it feels different than how others hear you.

Imagine you're talking to a friend across the room. You use a special microphone that sends your voice directly into their ears, that's how they hear you. Now imagine you're talking without a microphone, and you’re listening to yourself through the same kind of speaker that plays music in your bedroom. That’s how you hear your own voice.

It sounds deeper or more echoey because it goes through your head before it reaches your ears, like when you speak into a jar and listen with your other ear, it feels weird. Your brain is used to hearing voices coming from outside, not inside your skull!

So when you record yourself talking and play it back, it sounds strange, just like how you feel when you hear your own voice for the first time on a phone call or in a video.

It's like being used to eating your favorite snack with a spoon, but then suddenly tasting it straight from the bag, it feels different, even though it's still the same snack!