Do you like what you sound like in a recording?

[Kekkaishi]

That is what you sound to others?
I don't like how I sound at all

[A Former User]

@Kekkaishi If you pick your phone and open the front camera you'll think you look fine. But if you actually go and take the picture, it'll get unflipped horizontally. Now when you look, it's weird too you, it looks like you were looking better before when the image was mirrored.

This happens because we are used to see ourselves only through mirrors, they don't represent reality, not only that but we can only see ourselves from the same point of view. We are used to this point of view, anything else will look strange to us. But how you are perceived by others, on the other hand, is subject to the same strangeness.

If you show somebody a picture of you, one flipped (mirrored) and one unflipped, the strange one would be the flipped version, as you don't walk around with your right side on the left and vice versa.

Same happens with your voice, you are used to hear it from two different places! You hear both what's emitted from your mouth and what's echoed inside your own head. As your mouth and ears are in the same position in relation to each other, you'll always hear it from this unique perspective.

But other people can't hear the echo inside your head, nor are they used to listen to the sound of your voice comming from a fixed point in space.

The way you sound on recordings are actually how people hear you both in person and through recordings or phone calls, the only reason why you don't like it is because you're not familiar with hearing yourself like that.

[lololulu19]

@Kekkaishi I almost never like what I sound like.