The face shield is curved instead of a flat surface, the curved surface act as a refractive lens, and distorted your vision by higher order aberration. Just like glasses with astigmatism. With prolonged wearing, your visual cortex is adapted to the distorted image, and self adjusted to match your propioception sense. Thus, when you took that off, you found the image is curved up.
This leads to the interesting question on how we perceive the environment we live. Imagine our visual input was upside down since birth, we may not understand gravity as we do