I've found that it's in my nature to worry--excessively--to the point that I've woken up in cold sweats a few times. This has happened to me due to many circumstances. The one I'll mention here has been a fear of death. I always worry about my mother's declining health due to diabetes and try to push myself so I can support her comfortably if anything were to ever happen to her--I HATE nursing homes. Mind you, she is doing fine now, but my constant worry is that she will fall ill, much the same way her father did. Since he died when he was young, I have always feared that this would happen to her. I try to let go of the paranoia but it always seems to come back to me in some way, shape or form in my dreams. I guess this is a form of compensation that explains why I push myself as hard as I do, because if I don't my guilt at not doing so would haunt me even more than these kinds of dreams have. I'll be in my dream and I'll hear a voice that I'm not doing enough, and that I better push myself harder or ELSE...