The word smriti in Sanskrit can be derived as smariya-theity, that which made me remember a snake. The other way of deriving the word is smara na mitti smriti - remembering, the act of remembering is smriti. It's referring to jhana dhyasa, the mistake in the level of understanding. Shankara Chariya gives a couple of examples of artha dhyasa.

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