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:

    “We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?”
    —Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

    “What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”
    —John Hersey (b. 1914)