Was that really me? Relationships between memory and sense of self in people with maladaptive daydreaming.

Key Points

• The research aims to explore how maladaptive daydreaming affects memory and the sense of self.
• Analyzed relationships between compulsive daydreaming and memory issues.
• Investigated instances of forgetting and confabulation.
• Assessed implications for self-identity disruption.
• Compulsive daydreaming correlates with increased memory forgetting.
• Confabulation occurs, impacting personal identity perception.
• Support found for interpreting maladaptive daydreaming as a dissociative condition.