Disorientation

Disorientation describes the inability to correctly acknowledge the current time, place, one's role, and personal identity. These dimensions are called orientation to time, space, situation, and person, respectively. Personal orientation is rapidly restored after most types of brain damage. While fantastic confabulations, as described in the early literature, are often characterized by absurd misinterpretation of one's own identity, momentary and behaviorally spontaneous confabulation were mostly described in patients with intact personal orientation.