What a stressing day! I was so glad to arrive at my flat in San Clemente, California. It had been a hard day at work with many meetings to attend and many projects to finish. ‘Nothing that some mates and hot croissants can solve,’ I thought.

As soon as I finished the mates, I picked up my RELIVEIT 3.0 which is a device to relive someone’s memories. I needed to clear my mind. I placed the device on my head, took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and immersed myself in the simulation.

Ten seconds later, I was standing on a bus that suddenly stopped. I almost fell to the floor, but I was grasped to the bus bars.

‘Are you ok?’ A dark-haired teenager asked me. ‘Yeah, I’m ok,’ I replied her.

‘They don’t give someone time to react,’ she told me seriously.

‘They drive like crazy bastards. They are going to kill me one day,’ I said, and she started laughing. Her serious look was gone.

‘It is so weird. We had taken the same bus but have never spoken to...