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Does afterimage mean that you see something dark and then you see something light but in that light you still see the dark when you see the light?

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Afterimage means that if you look at a pattern for a while (keep your gaze steady) then look at a plain (non patterned) surface you see a "negative" of the pattern for a while.

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