somnifiction

/ˈsɒmnɪˌfɪkʃən/nounVerified New

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A dream narrative that the waking mind files as a remembered event, complete with the certainty of something that actually happened.

Somnifiction is why you wake convinced you own a boat, or that a friend betrayed you in a kitchen you have never visited. The memory has the texture of autobiography and the sourcing of fiction, and the correction — "that was a dream" — arrives late and is never fully believed.

Etym. — Latin somni- (sleep, dream) + fiction — a real morpheme boundary naming the genre the mind publishes nightly under the imprint of memory.

Rel. — dreamnotary · dreamperjury

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