Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
Well, that's a cheerfully useless word! I love it.
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