This means that you should feel touch from your finger before your toe, since it has less far to travel.
What actually happens is that you feel both your toe and finger touching at the same time. Your brain buffers the signals and plays them back at the same time, giving the illusion of simultaneity.
So yes, not only are you experiencing the world slightly behind, but it’s in differing amounts of delay.
You can search for “brain buffer simultaneity” to find tons of research on this topic.
Here’s one about vision:
https://theconversation.com/everything-we-see-is-a-mash-up-of-the-brains-last-15-seconds-of-visual-information-175577
Although for me the simplest demonstration is to touch your toe with your finger. Sensory nerves travel something like 100 meters per second:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_conduction_velocity
This means that you should feel touch from your finger before your toe, since it has less far to travel.
What actually happens is that you feel both your toe and finger touching at the same time. Your brain buffers the signals and plays them back at the same time, giving the illusion of simultaneity.
So yes, not only are you experiencing the world slightly behind, but it’s in differing amounts of delay.
You can search for “brain buffer simultaneity” to find tons of research on this topic.
That is fun! Thank you