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People with Synesthesia experience a consistent, involuntary, elicited sensory impression in one sense or category in response to a triggering input from a different, unrelated sense or category. Consistent means the same trigger always causes the same sensory impression. Involuntary means it happens automatically, without the person's imagining it or willing it to happen. Some synesthetes are able to ignore or suppress their impressions, however. Synesthesia may seem stronger or weaker under different physical and emotional circumstances (stress, fatigue, illness, etc.)
Triggers most commonly are letters or numbers, musical pitches or sounds, time units such as years, months or days of the week, tastes, smells, touch, pain, etc.A specific trigger consistently produces a specific sensory impression, such as a perception of color, texture, taste or shape. Most synesthetes describe very specific colors, textures, pressure sensations, etc. for their associated impressions. These stay the same throughout their lives. Every synesthete has a different set of associated impressions from every other synesthete.

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