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 that
> 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.

Allen
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