confabulation

How To Use confabulation In A Sentence

• After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie.
• Psychologists call this tendency to fill in nonexistent details confabulation. World Wide Mind
• A responsible therapist has a duty to help a patient sort out delusion from reality, dreams and confabulations from truth, and real abuse from imagined abuse.
• Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005). Emotion
• This ties into the idea of confabulation as the frontal lobes’ post-facto rationalization of decisions already made by the mammalian or reptilian brains. I have no thesis here, i just like saying numinous
• It seems likely that most so-called past life regressions induced through hypnosis are confabulations fed by cryptomnesia.
• He claims it was after confabulation with the Pope.
• All adversity finds ease in complaining (as [3421] Isidore holds), and 'tis a solace to relate it, [3422] Ἀγαθὴ δε ἐταίρου. Friends 'confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter, shade in summer, quale sopor fessis in gramine, meat and drink to him that is hungry or athirst; Anatomy of Melancholy
• Besides, I saw my friend, the journeyman dyer, in close confabulation with a pea-green personage of his own profession, and was conscious, like Scrub, that they talked of me, because they laughed consumedly. Redgauntlet
• The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect. SFGate: Top News Stories