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Main Entry: cryp·tom·ne·sia
Function: noun
: the appearance in consciousness of memory images which are not recognized as such but which appear as original creations
—cryp·tom·ne·sic adjective
Source: dictionary.com
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cryptomnesia
In this mental operation, a person incorporates a memory from a motion picture, television show, rumor, or whatever other source and uses that recollection as the basis for a personal memory. This process may be involved in cases where a UFO "abductee," for example, relates "memories" of the abduction similar to events seen dramatized earlier in a work of entertainment. Parallels have been noted between the release or broadcast of certain UFO-related dramas and subsequent reports of "abductions" and other incidents resembling events in those dramas. There is reason to think this process may have been active in the United States in the late 19th century, because of similarities between reports of "airship" sightings and the story of French science fiction author Jules Verne's previously published novel "Robur the Conqueror" about an inventor and his fantastic airship.
Source: fusionanomaly.net
An article I came across recently from the NY Observer (New Lolita Scandal! Did Nabokov Suffer From Cryptomnesia? April 19, 2004) applies it specifically to a kind literary plagiarism attended by a confabulated belief that the material plagiarised was original, which suggests it is a kind of reverse psychogenic amnesia : rather than forgetting that something happened to you after it does, you forget that something hasn't after it doesn't.
Interesting word. Shame about the sources (the first too short, the second decidedly Wikipedean).
Does anyone have a better definition?
Last edited by Homo Loquens; 11/29/2005 12:39 PM.
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I used to know one, but I forget the code.
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When I was younger, I was quite sure that I could remember the Kennedy assassination when it happened, watching it on TV, etc. Later, someone pointed out to me that I was in utero at the time, so I was either experiencing cryptomnesia or I had pre-natal ESP.
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Does anyone have a better definition?
Cryptomnesia is, literally, hidden memory.
but here are a couple of more serious stabs:
Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology: Knowledge (acquired in normal ways) that may be revealed without the person remembering its source.
Dorland's Med. Dict.: the recall of memories not recognized as such but thought to be original creations.
edit: I got all of these through OneLook.com
Last edited by tsuwm; 11/30/2005 9:43 PM.
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