[apl]

> I've noticed that when I get a blink/flinch response from > something (usually some sand or a bug hitting my face when > I'm on the bike), it feels like I blink just a split second > before the thing hit me.

We know very little about conscious perception or even the locus at which sensory signals are integrated to generate a conscious percept. But it's perfectly possible that delays differ across modalities and that the proprioceptive signal about lid-closing reaches whatever-relevant-area before your visual system catches up.

> I read something once about our perception of audio being > delayed by ~100ms so that it synchs up with our perception > of vision

Not an expert on audition, but the brain is really good at generating coherent representations of the physical world across modalities. I wouldn't be surprised if such cross-sensory synchronisation happened in some form.

[taneq]

Cool, thanks for the response! I'm glad my theory doesn't sound /too/ far fetched. :)