I don't know how many other "content creators" (ugh) do this, but I'm quite fond of watching my own videos back, and in particular I find them quite good to fall asleep to.
I realise this may sound like I'm boring myself to sleep, but actually it's more about the… familiarity, I guess? I remember the experience of playing the game and of recording the video, but not necessarily the details, so playing one of them back gives me the feeling that I don't need to actually watch it, but I can just listen to what I was talking about, accompanied by the sounds of the game. I've been told by others I have a fairly soothing voice, so I guess I'm just experiencing that for myself!
It's kind of strange to think about, though. I used to despise my own voice. When I was a kid, my parents used to get me to record my piano exam pieces onto cassette for my grandparents, which I didn't have a problem with, but I always loathed having to record the introductions for them… and I hated listening back to them even more.
I think it was mostly my accent I didn't like… or perhaps what I felt was something of a lack of an accent. I thought I sounded weird when I was talking, and listening to myself now, that side of my voice which I disliked — which I'm struggling to truly define — has definitely softened a great deal. Or perhaps I'm simply more tolerant of myself. I'm not conscious of having deliberately changed anything about the way I talk since childhood, but I'm certainly a lot happier to listen to myself now than I once was!
Anyway, having uploaded ten new videos to YouTube today, now I have just the thing to fall asleep to this week, and I can do it in the name of checking them over, too! Watch out for them over the course of the next couple of weeks.
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