Confusing internal imagination with external perception.
“Did I imagine that or did it happen?” Air (σ) distinction failure between memory sources. Underlies alien abduction beliefs, false memories, AI hallucination recall. Reality monitoring degrades.
Principle: “The mind cannot always distinguish between dreamed and lived.”
Diagnostic: Can you trace the source of this memory? Is there external corroboration?
Related: False Memory, AI Psychosis, Absorption
SIML Entry: A028 Source Monitoring Error — Full elemental analysis, nemetic string, daemon correspondence