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Lost Memory Syndrome & Confabulation

3/17/2016

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False memory syndrome is a condition when a person strongly believes in incorrect memories. Memories can be altered by outside influences and may be the result of  “recovered memory therapy”, according to forensic psychologist Ralph Underwager, sociologist Richard Ofshe and psychologist Elizabeth Loftus. This therapy includes hypnosis, sedatives and probing questions when it is believed that repressed memories are part of their client’s problem. Self help books and even the recovered memory therapist can be the cause of false memories. Elizabeth Loftus used this “therapy” to implant a memory of being lost in a mall as a child and found that 25% of her test  subjects actually were believing that the memory was real.
Another memory disturbance is called “Confabulation”.  Since people do not remember with 100% accuracy, partly remembered events are often filled with subtle fabrications. These can be drawn from other unrelated events, dreams or fantasies while they seem to be absolutely real when recalled. Confabulation can contain historical facts, spoken language, books read, fairy tales and non-personal information. When interviewed the story is often drawn from the patient’s actual experience including fantasized or read material. The patient believes strongly in these distorted memories. Research points the way that confabulation is a dysfunction of the cognitive process that controls the retrieval of memory.
Individuals, who have gaps in their memory are motivated to fill in and complete the memory and are absolutely sure the memory is correct. False memories and confabulations are problems  for witnesses in court cases and have resulted many times in the conviction of innocent people. Confabulation is often the case when subjects recall something unusual and is convinced that the memory is from a real event. This explains why some people are absolutely convinced when they recall being abducted by aliens or visited Heaven. Patients whose brain function became undetectable by our instruments but were revived often report bizarre memories when the return of the brain function  rebuilts memories by confabulation which are later recalled as a real experience, as in NDEs (Near death Experiences).
(JohnsonMK&Raye “False Memories and Confabulation”, LandonR& Turner “Delusion and Confabulation)

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Bernhard Schat
1/14/2017 11:55:29 am

Ohm namo narai !

Had ik tijdens mijn [dwang]opname aan de K.K.P. te Groningen in 1997 verteld over die Sumatra Atje tsunami 2004 ?
Had ik dat in India in 2004 niet ook een aantal keren aangekondigd ?
Had ik daar niet een mooi baantje in een Tempel voor gekregen 27 december 2004 ?
Had ik in ''het Slaaphuis'' in Groningen in de winter niet gevraagd of ze die L'Aquila Italia aardbeving in hun rapportages wilden opnemen ?
Was ''mijn'' psychiater nu wel of niet jarig 24 juni en had ik hem nu wel of niet die donderbui in het zuiden van het land voor zijn verjaardag beloofd ?
Heb ik ze nu wel of niet ter verificatie alvast op voorhand respectievelijk 3x 2 maanden na dato 3 dubbel en dwars door de bodem van hun eigen Rome , door de bodem van hun eigen Zuidlaren en uiteindelijk dwars door de bodem van de hel geleurd ?
Konden ze nu wel of niet op hun klompen aanvoelen dat ze daar in Zuidlaren op 23 december op voorhand naar de hel kunnen lopen ?

Het zal wel in hun rapportages staan ...
Ik had ze er nog zo om gevraagd !
Mijn psychater mag het weten ,
Ik wordt er hartstikke gek van ......

Groetn ..

Sri sri Magnitude
[AardbevingsGroninger]

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