This may be a long shot - but does anybody have an answer to this weird colour/contrast phenomenon?

[LambParty]

Okay so to preface, this weird Thing that I'll get to happened again today but this time I took a screenshot as evidence, and by the time I went back to look the issue had magically resolved. And so now I am unsure if this was perhaps my eyes playing tricks on me all along, so I am posting here because google searching has helped me ZERO. As per usual.

So basically in short - sometimes on my phone screen when I'm scrolling around, as you do, I will see text on a background with certain contrasting colours behind it and it will literally hurt my eyes and become unreadable. Now I don't mean "this is ugly my eyes hate it", I mean I have to squint and cannot see the text properly at all. It's almost like the colours contrast in such a way (let's say a particularly vivid blue right next to bright pink) that I can't see properly.

Now my instinct is usually to run away from the web page immediately, so it wasn't til today that I realised that returning to the page/screenshot later magically fixed the issue. So now this fact has made me reconsider if this isn't actually inherent to the colour combos as I assumed at all. Instead, is this either a display glitch or conversely, and hopefully unlikely, a weird eye condition I sometimes experience?

Now I DO know that HDR has this weird phenomenon where, say, you'll see a HDR imagine on instagram or wherever amongst regular ones, and the brightness bump will cause it to hurt your eyes, but in this instance there's no image - just text and harsh colour combinations.

I have a feeling anybody who may happen to read this will only be able to think "what da hell are they talkin about" so I don't expect an answer, but it is bugging me that I don't know what this Werird Thing is so it's worth a try anyway. Thanks anyone who happens to read this lol.

I should also note - this happens to me when I'm scrolling on my PHONE. I haven't really witnessed it on my computer at least as I remember currently.

[DoctorNick]

40 minutes ago, LambParty said:

Okay so to preface, this weird Thing that I'll get to happened again today but this time I took a screenshot as evidence, and by the time I went back to look the issue had magically resolved. And so now I am unsure if this was perhaps my eyes playing tricks on me all along, so I am posting here because google searching has helped me ZERO. As per usual.

So basically in short - sometimes on my phone screen when I'm scrolling around, as you do, I will see text on a background with certain contrasting colours behind it and it will literally hurt my eyes and become unreadable. Now I don't mean "this is ugly my eyes hate it", I mean I have to squint and cannot see the text properly at all. It's almost like the colours contrast in such a way (let's say a particularly vivid blue right next to bright pink) that I can't see properly.

Now my instinct is usually to run away from the web page immediately, so it wasn't til today that I realised that returning to the page/screenshot later magically fixed the issue. So now this fact has made me reconsider if this isn't actually inherent to the colour combos as I assumed at all. Instead, is this either a display glitch or conversely, and hopefully unlikely, a weird eye condition I sometimes experience?

Now I DO know that HDR has this weird phenomenon where, say, you'll see a HDR imagine on instagram or wherever amongst regular ones, and the brightness bump will cause it to hurt your eyes, but in this instance there's no image - just text and harsh colour combinations.

I have a feeling anybody who may happen to read this will only be able to think "what da hell are they talkin about" so I don't expect an answer, but it is bugging me that I don't know what this Werird Thing is so it's worth a try anyway. Thanks anyone who happens to read this lol.

I should also note - this happens to me when I'm scrolling on my PHONE. I haven't really witnessed it on my computer at least as I remember currently.

You might experience the same phenomenon as Gordon Freeman, when.. 

Could you post a picture of it? Maybe use another phone to take the picture if a screenshot doesn't capture it.

[Needfuldoer]

You might want to get your eyes checked. I have astigmatism and some color combinations are difficult to focus on.

[LambParty]

45 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

You might want to get your eyes checked. I have astigmatism and some color combinations are difficult to focus on.

it's possible this is it but that doesn't explain that the phenomena goes away mysteriously if I go back to the page or screenshot it etc....it is very hard to describe but it almost feels exactly like the HDR thing I described where your phone brightens certain areas in a way that makes it hard to look at. I do have glasses with a current prescription but it happens just infrequently/randomly enough that I can't test if it's different with or without them

[FluorescentGreen5]

2 hours ago, LambParty said:

it's possible this is it but that doesn't explain that the phenomena goes away mysteriously if I go back to the page or screenshot it etc....it is very hard to describe but it almost feels exactly like the HDR thing I described where your phone brightens certain areas in a way that makes it hard to look at. I do have glasses with a current prescription but it happens just infrequently/randomly enough that I can't test if it's different with or without them

time to run obs for a day