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
White House attempts to write the story off as a confabulation were undermined, however, by expressions of alarm on Capitol Hill.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2017
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
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