Quote - Our internal hearing is distorted by a sort of self-protective mechanism.

Because the ears are only two inches away from the larynx, the sound is
extremely loud, somewhere around 130 dB.  So the nervous system has
an automatic damper called the acoustic reflex.  When sound gets above
a certain level, a little muscle pulls the eardrum inward and tightens the
three little bones after the eardrum, so that the whole system can't move
much when sound strikes it.  This also changes the frequency pattern,
because the overall "wiggliness" of the system is changed.  
(The internal version sounds lower in general.)
 
So your internally heard voice is considerably different from how others
hear it.

Wow! I've always known that my voice sounded different to me than to anyone else because I was hearing some of it through the scull and stuff but I've never known about that sound damper thing. That would explain why it's almost impossible to hear other people if they speak while you're saying something yourself. 
Thanks, Ockham! ^_^

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