> Barbara Mcnay wrote:
 >>  > A cyberfriend asked me if I can hear myself talk.
 >>  > Being late deaf I do
 >>  > have speech. I too thought if you can't hear at all
 >>  > you wouldn't hear
 >>  > yourself talk but I DO even though my test says I'm
 >>  > zero .. etc etc
 >>  > etc. blah blahblahblah...
 >>
 >>  > Anybody know anything about this? Thanks. Cindy
 >>
 >> I don't *know* why you can hear yourself, but you did say some time back th
 > at
 >> you get a sound track when you see physical events happen.  Maybe this is a
 >> manifestation of that.  Do you sound normal to yourself or not?

 > Sound is received by the mechanical process of
 > soundwaves vibrating the
 > eardrum and the process that converts it to nerve
 > impulses.

 > Your mind remembers the sound waves and the words...
 > you can hear
 > yourself talk because your mind has all the "data"
 > necessary to process
 > your voice into the nerve impulses internally to make
 > the words audible
 > without having to go through the mechanical process of
 > conversion.

 > Hope that helps.

Yes, that's interesting, although I think Cindy carries that to a greater
degree, being able (IIRC) to "hear" external things she
witnesses.  I remember what things sound like, but if I am unable to hear
them at all now, then I don't "remember" the sound when I witness
a noisy event.  OTOH, as what's left of my hearing changes because of a
cold, shampoo water in my ears, etc., my voice sounds different to me
because I can actually hear it.

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