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... a patient conceives of an event that he has not really experienced but that only comes to his mind, as if it had really happened to him … the patient tells … of his extraordinary voyages, confuses old recollections with recent events, is unaware of where he is and who are the people around him ... – Sergei Korsakoff (1889 / 1891)