 Consequently, scratching an itch in a location that has previously served as the point of a referred itch does not induce an itch in the person’s typical origination site.Mitempfindung has been thought to be related to synesthesia in some individuals, specifically digit-color synesthesia.Digit-color synesthesia is a phenomenon in which affected individuals associate individual numbers with certain colors; individuals have been said to "count in colors."