Help, My 2010 Macbook Pro looks wierd!

Last night I started up my 2010 17" macbook pro and I noticed the startup was strange. The gray screen looked different and the apple had a dotted line outline. When my desktop appeared the image looked like I used a polarized affect in Photoshop.

I tried resetting pram & smc, it didn't work. I am going to try erasing the hard disk and reinstalling the original operating system. I don't have a monitor I could connect to to rule out the video card. I did do a screen cap of the desktop and emailed it to myself interestingly, it looked normal when I opened it in my email on another laptop.

Does anyone have advice for me?

P.S. the macbook pro is working fine I can access files and close them without issue. I just can't read anything because of they way it looks.

Thanks in advance!