Saturday, March 10, 2007

That's not mine!

After doing blogs this week, I've decided to analyze something that came up. Whenever I make a movie or something and hear it played back, I sound like a completely different person to myself. Why do we sound so different to ourselves on tape, but the same to everyone else? Why don't we like how we sound?
Technically, there are true scientific reasons for why we sound different. Our voices aren't vibrating in our heads, so the soundwaves sound different to us. When it's a videocamera listening to our voice rather than ourselves, we're able to hear it without the vibrations and different tone/sound that we normally hear with our own voices.
We sound different and don't like our voices played back to us because it isn't what we're used to. We're used to hearing our voice the way we hear it from within our bodies. To hear it differently can create an insecurity as we wonder if that's "what we really sound like." To us, it doesn't sound as deep and pure and we start to wonder if everyone else is hearing what you hear on the tape.
We sound different to ourselves because we're being put into an entirely new perspective. While you listen to yourself you've been given the opportunity to hear yourself as others hear you;outside of your own body. Others hear us as being the same because they're listening to you in the same perspective that they always do. This is why we sound the same to other people, just not ourselves. We're not used to listening to ourselves like we're someone else.
Finally, we don't like to hear ourselves talk on a recording because it feels like it isn't us anymore. When I listen to myself I almost feel as if that isn't really me. That's another person, or at least another side of me that I've never heard before. It's someone new, and I like the old me (old voice anyways) better.
I guess that the main reasons that we sound different and don't like our voices on a recording are:
1-It's a different perspective that we're not used to, and
2-There's a physical difference in how we actually hear the sound.
Well, I hope that this blog made sense to whoever is reading it. It made sense to me. It sounds good to my, but that's because I'm not listening to a recording of myself reading it. Just kidding. I love to laugh. Have a wonderful day ya'll. Bye.