I must confess I used to have problems with sleep paralysis and some kind of creepy lucid dreams even for entire nights . Those are really strange it even happened once that I was having a nightmare and I realized it so I tried to wake up ... I tried very hard and I was sure that I was awake but after all I was still dreaming and it was so freaking scary . Anyways with time I found some tricks to avoid nightmares (they sill appear from time to time but rarely ) ... first of all it's better if you don't sleep on your back ... I always feel more secure when I sleep facing the walls ... also it's good of you sleep with someone or while holding something (like a stuffed toy or a pillow ) ... I have  a red dog that I sleep with when sleeping and if I lose him I immediately wake up . I don't have those kind of dreams anymore and when I do there is only one that keeps repeating .

Back to the point yeah it's super strange what happened to you like ... can you control that ...sleep curling now ?

@rukia: I have to hug a pillow to fall asleep or I don't at all!!! I thought I was the only one :D

@rhea: Yeah I started studying this more. It's really interesting. Can you imagine the number of things we might think coming from illnesses that could be actually from things like this.

Let me share something. It was too....weird and amazing that I was speechless! It simply proved how little we understood about how our emotions, body and brain work.

Paul Pearsall, a neuropsychologist, wrote about this interesting topic in his book, The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy. In it, he provides insight into his belief that the physical heart contains within it memories belonging to its person. Part of Pearsall's research for the book included tracking several real life cases of heart transplant recipients who mysteriously inherited some of their donors' traits.

In one case, a Spanish-speaking man began using words that he had not used prior to his transplant. He received his heart from a man named David who had died in a car accident. David's wife, Glenda, when meeting the recipient of her husband's heart for the first time, used the word "copacetic" to describe the situation. The recipient's mother quickly replied that her son had begun using that word for the first time and that it did not even have a Spanish equivalent, indicating that he had adopted the word from David.

The recipient's son, who had before been a vegetarian, began craving meat and greasy food after his transplant. His music preferences also changed from favoring heavy metal to preferring fifties rock 'n' roll. All of these preferences turned out to be David's preferences as well.

In another case, an 8-year-old girl who had received a heart transplant from a 10-year-old girl that had been murdered, began to have nightmares about the donor's murderer. After several consultations with a psychiatrist, it was decided that the police should be notified. The 8-year-old recipient was able to identify key clues about the murder, including who the murderer was, when and how it happened, and even the words spoken by the murderer to the victim. Amazingly, the entire testimony turned out to be true and the murderer was convicted for his crime.

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Wow. Intense. :|

As for physical stress/anxiety signs, I grind my teeth in my sleep and flail like crazy. It usually leads to me waking up with a sore jaw that I can barely open because my subconscious is still making me grind my teeth.