Pseudo-reminiscences (“memory illusions”, false memories)
type of paramnesia; memories of events that really took place in a person’s life, to which the time periods in which they occurred are incorrectly attributed. Most often, pseudoreminiscences replace memory gaps that arise due to amnestic disorders (most often fixation amnesia). Patients seem to be trying to fill in the gaps in memory with elements of past experience transferred to the present. Pseudo-reminiscences are based on a characteristic feature of episodic memory, which consists in the fact that the content of memories itself is preserved more firmly than their temporal attribution and temporal relationships between events.