science

And your rectum.

Wow, these examples are so cool.

Food Preferences:

• developed aversion to meat after receiving a heart from a vegetarian donor.
• experienced nausea after meals post-transplant from a donor with irregular eating habits.
• developed a taste for green peppers and chicken nuggets, foods favored by her donor.

Musical Preferences:

• began enjoying loud music post-transplant.
• developed a love for music after receiving a heart from a musician.
• started appreciating classical music, previously disliked, after transplant.

Sexual Preferences:

• Male recipient of a heart from a lesbian artist experienced heightened desire toward women.
• Lesbian recipient of a heterosexual woman's heart found attraction to men.

Other Preferences and Aversions:

• Landscape artist's heart recipient developed interest in art.
• Dancer's heart recipient shifted color preferences to cooler tones.
• Fear of water developed post-transplant from drowning victim.

Memories:

• describes sudden unusual tastes accompanied by thoughts about their donor's identity and life experiences.
• feels tactile sensations corresponding to the impact of the car accident that killed their donor.
• experiencing flashes of light and heat resembling the trauma suffered by their donor, who was shot in the face.
• describes a vivid dream of reckless driving, mirroring the circumstances of their donor's fatal motorcycle accident.

Some recipients even experience dreams or memories aligning with their donor's identity, such as a woman envisioning a young man named Tim during a dream and later discovering her donor's name as Tim Lamirande

Unfortunately, though, I don't see any mention of how certain they were that the recipients didn't learn these things before experiencing them