Well, we can start with why you'd have the idea that your dad would just... not be proud of you. You're a lawyer or something, right? Who wouldn't be proud of that? Especially back home, that's so much to learn in laws and stuff.

[...maybe not as much for him being some 200 years in her past, but still way more than she knows beyond simple things.]

There's always something that can trigger it, too. What were you thinking of before you went to sleep, or did you have weird thoughts before bed?