Screen Saver Switching Color Profile

It seems that lately, the blurry screen saver, when activated, has been changing my screen's color profile. I cannot figure out why.
What happens is if it is left running long enough, when I turn it off, my screen get's washed out and kinda "bluish."
Opening the control panel and simply clicking on displays causes the correct profile to "snap" into place. (i.e. I don't have to actually select a profile or anything.)
Is there any way I get this to stop doing this? I have run the ColorSync utility but it only found two corrupt printer profiles for printers I don't even have.

I have seen this exact same problem for the first time today. It only happened once.

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