For a while I had a strange plant that curled up into a ball when it was utterly dry and out of water. But then, when given water, the brown and apparently dead thing would unfurl and come back to life.
I don't recall who gave it to me, or what happened to it in the end. Did I kill it completely one time?
Anyway, I suspect it was a resurrection plant. Perhaps you have one?
I think of it now and again. When the conditions were right, it did ok in the world, and popped back into fine shape.
There might be blogs with a similar kind of thing going on.