Negative afterimage
An afterimage in which the lightness relationship is reversed; if chromatic, it appears in complementary colour.for example a green image that is looked at for a while when gaze is turned to a white sheet of paper it would have a red afterimage. afterimages usually last from about a few seconds to a minute. most nerve cells quickly readjust.
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