As soon as I had the first of my eyes treated with cataract surgery, I saw that my untreated eye cast everything I looked at in a darkish yellow, while my treated eye saw the pure colors as I remembered them. Cataracts develop so slowly that one doesn't realize how one's color perceptions are slowly changing. With both my "new eyes" now, I see color as vividly as ever. I've learned there is no such thing as "old eyes," just untreated ones. Check your vision out at an ophthalmologist, not an optometrist. If cataracts are present and treated, then in terms of your vision, you'll feel like your personal white balance has been restored.