dreamperjury
/ˈdriːmˌpɜːdʒəri/nounVerified NewAlso in: Traummeineid (Deutsch) · sueñeperjurio (Español) · rêveparjure (Français)
Swearing you remember a dream you do not, in order to keep a dream conversation going.
Dreamperjury is the polite crime of the breakfast table: "Yes, I had almost the same one." The witness has not had almost the same one; the witness has had nothing, and would like the other person to keep talking. It is perjury in the service of intimacy, and nobody has ever been prosecuted.
Etym. — dream + perjury — the legal metaphor names the specific lie, which no existing phrase does; "pretending to remember" is a description, not a word.
Rel. — pillowcourt · dreamnotary · somnifiction
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