cryptomnesia

(ˌkrɪptəmˈniːzɪə)

(Psychology) the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience

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cryptomnesia

the occurrence in consciousness of images not recognized as produced by the memory and its storage of events and scènes. — cryptomnesic, adj.

See also: Memory

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The authors report on general trends in spontaneous case data and discuss a variety of explanations, such as cryptomnesia (learning the information through normal means but then forgetting the source), fraud, psi, and reincarnation.

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Conventional explanations are considered, including that past lives are inaccurate confabulations created via suggestion, and that they may be the products of cryptomnesia, consisting of perhaps detailed information that the claimant has been exposed to (for example in a historical novel) but has completely forgotten having been exposed to it.

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It is so deep, they are even immune to dA[c]jA vu, also known as "cryptomnesia", which is where history is forgotten but nevertheless stored in the brain.

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This manuscript was screened for plagiarism and cryptomnesia using Grammarly.

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the melody was an unconscious distillation of Ray Charles' version of Hoagy Carmichel's 'Georgia On My Mind,' a case of cryptomnesia. Cryptomnesia is the scientific term for unconsciously plagiarizing some else's work."