Chapter:2 Confabulation Confabulation, recognized as a way to battle in the midst of our conscious, sometimes can be characterized as honest lying to ourselves or others around us. Our brain is tricky, and it unquestionably likes you to believe and identify things the way your emotions and thoughts want them to. Filling in gaps, and switching orders of events, is a way our mind likes to explain our feelings. In some cases this is a serious action and is considered a disorder such as Korsakoff's, Capgras, or even Cotard's. Many psychologists are looking into the research of how our brain works under those conditions, and what they have discovered is that our brain is split into two. The brain is suppose to communicate between one side to the other, however, there are many people who don’t have those nerves that send those messages between the two sides which results into split-brain syndrome. Throughout the chapter, the mind explains why it does the things it does. Asking questions like, why are we so ignorant when it comes to explaining our feelings, choices, and past events in a way we perceive or want them to happen even though it’s a lie. Due to Confabulation and misconception occurring in our brains, it is imperative particularly in an English class which is generally devoted to immense critical thinking, to pause and understand that trusting our brain a 100% is exceptionally risky, and sometimes not the best choice. In the left hemisphere of our brain, the control is mostly focused on speech, language, grammar, and syntax. In an English class, the majority of the time is spent either reading, writing, or understanding the literal aspects of the both. However, not all individuals are able to connect their right and left part of their brain to work in a unison. This condition is called Split-Brain Syndrome. This can result into struggles of accomplishing