Both displays very washed out and saturated.

I searched a whole lot for an answer to my problem but I don't really know how to formulate it into words so I didn't get very far.
I'm using a 13" MacBook with an external monitor and on my user only, the whites have absolutely no contrast and appear really washed out. I can see no gradient in the finder's panes and even the lines surrounding this input box in firefox are invisible. I have no idea what's happened.
When I switch users, the problem disappears. I've thought it might be the display's color profile but when I applied the one for my user to the other user, the problem still wasn't there. Help, anybody, my eyes are burning.

I have no idea what was going on, or what caused the problem. I was messign around with the displays, inverted it 180 degrees and that seemed to fix my problem. After it went back to right side up the problem was gone. I hate you apple. You make my life miserable for your enjoyment.

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