screen burn

Have you ever worked with something for so long or intently that even when you get away from it a phantom image lingers on the interior of your eyelids?

I usually do this with video games. I can't tell you the number of times I have closed my eyes only to be confronted with little people running around gunning each other down or casting spells on each other. So many units in formation marching across my corneias. I have even does this with Snood. That is worse I think. They just make angry faces except for the blue guy that my niece says is Grover. That little bastard smiles like a donut.

Anyway, recently I have been making this picture in photoshop, and I have been working on it so long that when I close my eyes all I see in the orange and blue background from the image. I don't know why it has such a hypnotic quality but it consumes my landscape when my eyes shut. In time it will fade but right now it bugs the shit out of me. As long as it does not superimpose itself on things when my eyes are open things are smoove.

The following image is the picture in question. It is not exactly what I have been staring at since there was another image in the foreground but this is what is engrained itself upon retinas. It may not look like much but stared at it for a hours a day for a few days and you will see it too.