Does the sound of your own voice make you want to cringe internally?

Don't worry, pretty much everyone feels the same way.

In fact, playing a sound clip back to someone will almost always prompt the same response – ''Oh my God, do I actually sound like that?"

Sure, we all have things about ourselves that we don't like, but why is it that absolutely everyone shares this particular dislike?

Well, according to experts from University College London, you actually hear your voice back completely differently to how other people hear it.

See, when we hear another person talking, the sound waves travel through the air and into your ears, causing our eardrums to vibrate, and in turn, those vibrations get transformed into sound.

However, when you're the one talking, your vocal cords also vibrate, meaning you receive two sources of sound at the same time.

According to Red Online, Martin Birchall, professor of laryngology at UCL explains: “When we talk, it’s like everyone hears the sound through speakers, but we’re hearing it through a cave complex inside our own heads.”

“The sound is going around our sinuses, all the empty spaces in our heads and the middle part of our ears, which changes the way we hear sounds compared to what other people hear.”

So, seeing as a recording of your voice only contains one source of vibrations, you automatically dislike it because it's not the sound you're used to.