Mental Events Are More Real Than Reality Itself

This is…spooky!

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The subconscious can’t tell the difference between an imagined or remembered event and an incident that is occurring in the real world.

So today, I wanted to talk about a few concepts which don’t initially seem connected. But the research hold some tremendous implications for the value of visualization, so endorsed in the Law of Attraction community. It is a process in neuroscience called confabulation.

Confabu-what-now?

Confabulation is what occurs when a memory seems tainted or abridged by the person relating the past event. Psychologically, dictionary.com defines it as “the replacement of a gap in a person’s memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.”

It has also been used in the context of one who is not necessarily wrong about what happened. In other words, the memory of an event may not be historically inaccurate; but it’s a falsification in the sense that the subject did not actually experience or have been aware of particular details in the original formation of the memory. It took place at some point afterward.

…More on that later.