Strands #248 “Strumming Right...
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...in the following circumstances.
For example: someone (who believes that aliens visit the earth) climbs up a mountain on their own and sees something that they wrongly interpret as an alien / UFO.
That person comes down the mountain and describes their encounter to a journalist.
This next bit is the point of my question: When describing the whole trip up & down the mountain, the person re-interprets lots of other trivial events & sights such that they support the 'alien encounter' story.
For example; they remember that they saw some sheep running down the mountain and claim that 'the sheep were running away from the alien'; whereas the sheep had just been startled by the person themself. Another example; they remember some slightly unusual weather conditions or lights in the sky; both are random natural / man-made phenomena but the person builds them into the alien encounter theory.
The word or phrase that I am looking for is the act of mis-interpreting true events to support a false previously-held belief.
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