Confabulation is a wonderful psychological term to describe the confusion of imagination with memory.

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Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc confabulation and is easily fractured into separate parts.

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There was no Alan Zwelish, or Alan Zwelish had never married or died: the whole episode was confabulation.

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As he'd done in prior years, Barack Obama attended a dinner in which a number of Silicon Valley's wealthiest gathered around for grub and confabulation.

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