False Memory

False memory refers to the recollection of an event, or the details of an event, that did not occur. The term may also refer to:

  • False memory syndrome
  • Source-monitoring error
  • Confabulation
  • False Memory (novel), by Dean Koontz

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or memory:

    “History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    “They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
    That all of thee we loved and cherished
    Has with thy summer roses perished;
    And left, as its young beauty fled,
    An ashen memory in its stead.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)