Humans' drive to narrativize can fill in even a rough sketch with vivid detail.

A fortune teller says "I see someone wearing blue," and later the customer swears that the fortune teller saw "Aunt Nelly wearing that blue hat she always wore."

We can add in the fractal details, where the closer we look at a story, the more detail we fulfill on demand.

This is one reason that dreams don't make sense; the closer you look, the more the details blur.

It's also how our memories work; we share a low-fidelity version of the important points, and then fill in details with our current beliefs at the time of retrieval.

This is a destructive process; every time we do it we erode more and more of the fidelity of the original.