Moving along...
the cones in retina are unable to distinguish colors in dark, leaving us only the monochrome softer vision provided by rods.
http://www.optics4kids.org/getattachment/13cb7b00-117a-4e69-9d5d-35ad7d949199/Optical-Illusions.aspx
Then again a visual kind of guy,probably knows all this.
I thought it was the cold hearted orb that removed the colors from our sight.