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:

    “A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,
    Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
    For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and
    lands—and this for his dear sake,
    Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
    There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)