Clancy’s research has found that our memories are changed every time we access them, and that memories played back and recontextualized in hypnosis are at higher risk of becoming distorted, or “false.” People who are higher in creativity or more prone to fantasy are more likely to have these kinds of vivid trance experiences—such as a belief that they’ve been probed by aliens or that they’re the reincarnation of Simone de Beauvoir—committed to memory.
