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Stare at one color—but see another.
What happened to your whole hand?
Which is in control, your eyes or your brain?
Make a bright spot brighter.
Color is in the eye of the beholder.
When your eyes adapt to color, you can see things that aren’t really there.
Where did all the colors go?
The colors you see here are all in your head.
