afterimage
Retinal ghost lingering
An afterimage is a visual impression that persists after the stimulus has been removed—the ghost of a bright light that floats in your vision after you look away, or the complementary colors you see after staring at a colored shape.
I could still see the afterimage of the camera flash.
The term extends figuratively to any lingering mental impression: The afterimage of the accident haunted her for weeks.
Misleading sensory impression
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- traceMinute remnant or pursue
- imprintMark from applied pressure
- echoReflected sound wave
residue · linger · memory · impression · apparition · specter · figment · projection
Of eye's inner lining
- phospheneVision without external light
- ghostingAbruptly ceasing all communication
- flashBrief burst of light
- glareFierce stare or brightness
halo · burn-in · fading · negative · positive · complementary · color · spectrum
Cell responding to light
- rodsThin cylindrical shafts
- conesTapering geometric solids
- retinaLight-sensing tissue layer
- foveaRetinal depression for acuity
photopigment · fatigue · recovery · neural · optic · wavelength · luminance · desensitization
illusion
Misleading sensory impression
echo · residue · linger · memory · impression · apparition · specter · figment · projection · hallucination
retinal
Of eye's inner lining
- phospheneVision without external light
- ghostingAbruptly ceasing all communication
- flashBrief burst of light
glare · halo · burn-in · fading · negative · positive · complementary · color · spectrum · brightness
photoreceptor
Cell responding to light
fovea · photopigment · fatigue · recovery · neural · optic · wavelength · luminance · desensitization · visual cortex
- after-aftermath, aftertaste, afterlife, aftereffect, afterword
- illusionsmirage, optical illusion, hallucination, illusion, double vision
- optical illusionsoptical illusion, optical illusions, trompe l'oeil, impossible stairs, duck-rabbit
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- perception errorsmisperception, illusion, optical illusion, visual distortion, blind spot
- visual phenomenaoptical illusion, phosphenes, mirage, rainbow, scotoma