Of all the problems I struggle with, late-night worries are NOT among them.

Yeah comes with age

Yes ,anxiety in all its forms gets worse with age.

I have this fear of a deranged person sewing me to my bedsheets.
Its called sewaphobia.

Yes. The 3:00 am, "I've forgotten something that will cost the company a million or two in revenue." Then at 6 I wake up at and it's "meh."

i seldom get a good night's sleep. last night was a little worse than usual. got to bed around 11 pm. read for 20 mins or so & fell asleep. was wide awake at 3.30. read for close to an hr but never really got back to a deep sleep. finally got up around 8.30. another groggy day. but golfed 9 holes & had a fair round. home around 2 pm, read for a while & then dozed a little.
i have prescriptions for zopiclone & diazapam. was taking a mild sleep aid for a while but it caused stuffiness in my nose. i have dark thoughts when awake in the middle of the night.
one of the curses of old age is the inability to get a good nights sleep.

I have absurd daylight worries, I like to keep my evenings free.

Yup. Usually the onset is right after falling asleep. Once it starts I cannot shake it and i cannot get back to sleep.

It happened to me really badly a few years ago when I was doing conservation education programs with our raptors in an out of state situation. I began to worry that somehow I did not do everything necessary to fulfill EVERY single state and federal regulation and that somehow I would be arrested, have the hawk, owls, and falcon confiscated, and lose my Federal permits. Here I am having a full blown event in the middle of the night in a motel room! It got so bad I had to get up, turn on all the lights and go through the paperwork I carry. Then I took a sheet of paper and wrote down the list of applicable Federal and state regs for both states I was travelling in. Even then, with all the evidence that I was doing things by the book, I was uneasy. Nothing left to do but brew a little motel room pot of coffee and prep morning meals for the birds.

I start anxiety meditation in two weeks, to cope with mine......

I do the opposite. Whilst I sleep, solutions materialise. However, if I don't wake up and write them down, I risk losing them.

The mind does play funny tricks on us while we are sleeping for sure as it sorts the days activity,s out . running imaginary scearios ,even bringing solutions to our problems or concerns and at other times keeps you awake all night wondering why 2 plus 2 = 4 lol

Motherhood is a Never Ending Task.

I WISH I just had worries like that!

You were right - absurd to worry over it

i worry a lot but unfortunately about big ol' problems i can't easily solve but must. once in a while if i've been listening to the id channel too long i worry about what i would do if the house caught fire or someone broke in or i was in an active shooter situation, but then i sort of slap myself and move on.

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I have a degree of anxiety that I live with and I think of things as I'm in bed. Sometimes I get a good answer. Maybe you have some anxiety too.

No, see the quote from toolguy and Alfred E. Neuman. Glad you got it fixed!

This is one of the advantages of insomnia.