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by madethemcry 1099 days ago
That's interesting. Every normal white feels pale and boring after seeing that white. I'm not writing this as a joke, everything that is supposed to be white looks like a greyish, washed out white right now.
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Most colours are relative to their surroundings anyway; there's a few cool optical illusions that illustrate that like https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/27/12-fa...
Same thing happens watching something projected on a screen (in a room of non-zero brightness). Imagine a zebra or a checkerboard projected on a white screen. When you're looking at the projected image, you really see "black and white" but only when you consciously reconsider and look at the margins of the screen outside the image, you realize the zebra or checkerboard's "black" parts are actually full white (possibly even a touch brighter due to LCD) and the white parts are just ultra bright white. It always amazes me that we're naturally able to perceive any (reasonable) relative gradient of dark to bright as though it's true black-to-white.
But eventually your vision readjusts to the old levels and normal whites feel normal again.
but some part of you will always be chasing that high again, always needing that hit, that rush
Yes! I thought the Safari example above had just dimmed the rest of the screen as a trick, but then I closed the window and it was all still grey and dull. I have been spoiled now I have glimpsed 'true white'.
At first I thought the page was playing a trick by applying a tint to the page.