Like who the fuck is this guy and why the fuck he is so weird and he talks weird…
oh shit that’s me… fuck… why am I so weird?
If you record your dog talking to (barking at) you and play it back, the dog will think it’s another dog barking at them, and they will bark back. Tested with a Jack Russell terrier. They’re high strung by nature, but I imagine it’ll work with any breed prone to barking into a camera (not all of them will). Of course, the dog has no concept of self. It’s always another dog.
We do have a sense of self, and it’s often not how others see us. Consider that what you think of as you is only how you see yourself. It’s partly what you see in the mirror, but it’s also mixed with your ideals, who you want to be, and your shame, reflections of past mistakes. If you have a partner/lover, they see you differently. They tend to amplify your virtues and minimise your flaws. Same if you have a friend, but they still see a different side of you. Parents are stranger still; we tend to see our child for a few stand-out events in their lives. Not just parents, but anyone who’s raised a child from one age to another; as they develop, we latch onto one moment. I have two cousins I helped raise, and I always see the oldest one at 4-5 because that’s when we were closest. The younger one, I see at either 8 or 15 because those were her best years. They’re in their early to mid 30s now. Obviously I see them as women (and as mothers) but in my mind, they’re the children I helped raise. Ergo, I don’t use profanity around them. If I partook in vices like smoking and drinking, I would not do those things in their presence. (Plus, I was always the reliable adult when all the other adults were getting shitfaced, not that it was ever abusive AFAIK, but I was the sane voice in the room, so I wouldn’t want to jeopardise that.)
For a far simpler explanation, none of us actually sound how we think we sound. The camera does not lie, but we lie to ourselves.
It’s unfamiliar, that’s all.
Normally, you don’t hear what your voice really sounds like. You hear a distorted version because your mouth and your ears are connected to the same body. When you get used to the distorted version, you begin to consider it normal. When you hear the real one for the first time, it sounds unfamiliar.I wonder if your brain then starts to align how you hear your own voice and how you hear it when it’s recorded. If it starts to sound more the same for you.
Would also be really weird if you for a long period only heard recordings of you speaking, and when you start speak again, you get equally, or probably more, freaked out by your own voice, as when your hear it recorded.
Yeah, the reverse would be super freaky. However, arranging circumstances like that would be very hard. Like, how do you prevent yourself from hearing your own speech for an extended period of time? Either way, that would be quite an experience once you switch back to normal and you can hear yourself normally again.
Would we still find it weird if we didn’t know that is our own voice that is being played? Like if somebody plays a recording of me from last week where I said something general that everybody could have said?
Exactly, everyone feels like they sound weird. Except me, I do just sound weird.
That’s it. I’ve watched my own videos dozens of times by now and it’s not weird anymore. But I distinctly remember that feeling OP’s talking about frim the first few video’s I had to watch.
How long did it take to get used to hearing your real voice?
Im not sure. A while, maybe up to half a year, doing one or two videos per week. But I tried not to rewatch every video, because it was so awkward. Sometimes I have to though and at some point, in that first half year, it stopped being awkward.
Must be weird for podcasters who edit their own videos.
I work in 911 dispatch, so I frequently have to go back and relisten to calls I’ve taken to see if I heard something correctly
It was very weird at first hearing my own voice played back at me so much, but it’s something you get used to after a while
But even after 7 years on the job, if I think about it my voice on the recording never sounds quite right to me.
Its uncanny for most people to look at themselves in photos or video because we are so used to seeing our mirror reflections instead.
Same can be reasoned with acoustics. The sounds we speak are made inside your throat and mouth, practically already resonating within the skull. It’s bound to sound different than what a microphone some feet away will pick up.
Feels like an imposter compared to how you know yourself.
I used to find myself kind of floating above the meeting or whatever I was in. Just observing, while also still participating. I wonder if that’s similar. I don’t think I’ve ever filmed myself talking to someone.
It’s different than that for me. Try using your phone video recorder when reading a page out of a book and see if you can get used to your voice by the end. In my experience, out-of-body experiences are much more natural and don’t trigger the same uncanny valley-type feeling
