A combination of control and manipulation. Means "causing someone to believe something that is false, or convincing them that an event occurred when it did not"
Hypnosis experts use contripulation to convince their clients that they are being hypnotized.
A word denoted to the gaps in our memory that we fill in with a plausable but yet imagined memory.
And no, it's different to a hallucination, as a confabulation can only be retrospective (hallucinations are happening at the time)
"No, that didn't really happen, George. What you have just experienced was a confabulation."
"But i swear that time in year 8 the teacher was wearing huge come fuck me boots to class..."