[thaw13579]

Great point, perhaps “confabulation” is a better way of describing it, which means “the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that they believe to be true”. For example, the term is sometime used to describe dementia patients, who might wander somewhere and forget how they got there. The patient then might confabulate a story about why they are there, e.g. they were getting their keys so they could drive to the store to run an errand, despite the fact they no longer have a car.