I've Been Here Before ...

For Christmas my younger brother got a Playstation 2 games called 'Driv3r'. It is a driving games but has 2 whole cities laid out so you are literally driving around them - one being Miami and the other being Nice (were I currently am). Thus it was quite surreal to get to know Nice through the video game and then actually come here.

While walking around Nice, I get to an area that I am familiar with from the game and think 'if I turn around there should be X over there, and Y should be a little further down and an exit lane should be over there'. Sure enough all the details are there in real life.

Monaco was a bit the same. In high school when 3D games were really coming of age, one game you could race around the streets of Monaco in an F1. Some of the streets I remembered today while walking around. I wonder if there is a term for when you experience something in cyberspace, becoming strangely aware so when it happens in real life, seems like recalling a 'real' memory.