 So the question then turns, in other words, they're not just faking it or making it up to sell books or whatever. I think most people are pretty genuine. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, and that's the case, I would agree. But the question is, what does that experience actually represent? In the case of Dr. Simon, he used hypnosis. Well, hypnotic regression to retrieve memories has now been shown to be largely the product of imagination.