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..."