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creating false memories (confabulation)

Does anyone experience this? - Confabulation

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Confabulation: quoted from http://alzonline.phhp.ufl.edu/en/reading/Anosognosia.pdf
People with anosognosia will often confabulate. Confabulation is making up an answer or responding with remarks that link pieces of information, time, places, and people that do not belong together. Sometimes people will combine memories from different events and insist that the event unfolded that way. They may describe an event as recent but it actually happened decades ago with different people. Sometimes they mix information from the newspaper or television with a personal event.