This year I had a lot of practice driving in Spain, where they drive on the right side of the road (in the UK where I live, we drive on the left).
Adjusting to driving on the other side was fairly simple - the harder part was just understanding and complying with conventions, signs and signals etc.
They have similar sorts of road junctions to us - dual carriageway, roundabouts, T junctions and the like - no major surprises there (although their roundabout rules are weird to me).
But one thing I noticed after I really got comfortable with driving was that I found myself saying left when I meant right, and vice versa. Knowing my left and right has never been a problem for me before.
It’s sort of understandable in the context of roundabouts - ‘go left at the roundabout’ in the UK typically means taking the first exit, and if you take the first exit off a Spanish roundabout, you’re typically turning right, but it was not limited to roundabouts - I’d find myself often referring to any left turn as ‘right’ and vice versa.
It didn’t manifest in any reversed perception of course - text didn’t appear reversed or anything like that, just my ability to express directions was flipped. Whenever I was back in the UK and driving there, the problem was gone, but on repeated returns to drive in Spain, it was back again, and only when I was behind the wheel. (We had to do a lot of navigation to find new places and such, so there was a lot of opportunity to notice it happening)
Anyone else ever experienced anything like this?