peterfirefly might be thinking of "se souvenir (de)".
It wouldn't make sense in the context of the sentence.
"Le phénomène décrit me souvient..." would sound wrong in the ear of a native french speaker.
Yup, but you need to take into account semantic confusion by a native speaker of one language with words in another language. In this case, peterfirefly might have been thinking of 'se souvenir (de)' and mkesper might have been translating 'se rappeler', but confused 'remind oneself' and 'remember', which is pretty easy to do and explains the mistranslation.
I don't know what actually goes through their heads but it is a mistake I have seen from French speakers before.