Eli5, Why is chewing so much louder with earplugs in?

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..When wearing earplugs eating an apple is really loud.. even when wearing earphones and a normal volume is being played, earting is still loud?

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Under normal circumstances you hear things both internally and externally and our brains combine them to a “normal” volume. When you have headphones in, you only hear the internal sound which even though it’s going through your skull it’s amplified. Talking gets muted because the sound is projected outwards and isn’t contained by our mouth.

It’s why our voice sounds different when we hear a recording as opposed to what we ourselves hear.

I tried to make it super simple lol.

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