A few people I know are a plethora of misinformation. It's one of those things that I either laugh about or cry about depending on my mood. I don't get it. "You don't know about parallel universes?" she asks.
In psychiatry, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.[1] Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.
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