Yeah, seriously. They look obviously to be the same value.

But I do draw in pencil a lot so maybe my eyes are trained to see things for their actual value? I dunno. I can't remember before I could draw, so I don't remember how different things looked. I do recall at one point in my lifem ages ago now, when I learned to 'see' negative space, and how different that seemed. Now when I look at an image I do actually have to adjust to see the picture for what it is a representation of, not just a picture, if that makes sense. I see the shapes that represent the picture before I see the picture. I kind of live in drawing-mode now, and have for years. It does help my programming though.

I do know that when I get on a kick for a certain style, I start seeing things in the style. For instance, when I did a bout of ink stippling, I as seeing thigns in stippling. Not really, but like an almost-hallucination on the edge of my vision, like a really strong imagine-ation. Whatever the word is. When I started 3-D modelling it was really strange and made me a bit dizzy because I was imagining things from multiple sides and stuff.