confabulation

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This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The percentage of the public dealing with confabulation is unknown, but it is more common in the elderly and people suffering from post-traumatic stress, sleep deprivation, stress or brain injury.

From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2023

"So the question is: If there's something awry going on, was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation?"

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2018

A long, narrow space without much of an architectural pedigree, it was, unlike some of the historic homes Mongiardino was handed that came with caveats, ripe for pure confabulation.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2016

But this episode was symptomatic: even his love for me involved extending the fabric of his psychosis and confabulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee