Ava tells her friend a story, thinking that she originally heard it from her mother, when she actually dreamt it. This is known as source misattribution.

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Source misattribution refers to the situation where a person attributes a memory to the wrong source, i.e., they believe a memory came from one source (such as their mother) when it actually came from a different source (such as a dream).

Ava Tells Her Friend a Story, Thinking That She Originally