Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Confabulatory Hypermnesia

Boing Boing links to a fascinating look at confabulatory hypermnesia, a rare disorder in which people with various kinds of amnesia (including amnesia resulting from alcoholism and Vitamin B1 deficiencies) invent a continuous stream of detailed, fictitious events to fill in the gaps in their memory.

I've met people like this. But I don't believe they had amnesia, though. Just the confabulatory bit.