It happened to me only a couple of times, and as people already said, it happens more often when you sleep on your back. Also, like Jacqueline already told, when it starts I know what is gonna happen so the first thing I try to do is to wake up and to not get too afraid, because it is only a dream. A good technique is to try to move a small part of the body (not all the body, it is more difficult) or to focus on a light (if there is one).

Sometimes it is more similar to a real dream, other time there is only a terrifying noise of a man's patent leather shoes walking towards me.

You could check out some songs by Fabrizio de André, Rino Gaetano, Vinicio Capossela or, someone more contemporanian, Modena City Ramblers.

"Индейка"[indejka] is the translation of "turkey", and it reminds the word "India".

In Romanian both words seem to not have any geograthical name in them.

In Italian, Guinea pig is called "porcellino d'India" (small pig from india), and turkey is "tacchino", which also seems not to have any geographic connotations.

A little off topic: In Italian, roller coasters are called "montagne russe", which means "russian mountains". In Russian they call them "aмериканские горки", which means "american slides".