Camden's dreams... again

A few weeks ago Camden woke me up with a hysterical scream. The kind where you bound out of bed and go running. He was crying and so scared. As I tried to calm him down he started telling me that somebody had poked his arm really hard. He said, "Somebody poked me, and they had a bony finger.....but that's nothing to be ashamed of." I started laughing and he said, "I'm serious! It's not!" Then he proceeds to tell me there were spiders in his closet. I told him it was just a dream, because nobody poked him, and there weren't any spiders in his closet. He said, "It wasn't a dream! It really happened! There were lots of spiders in my closet and then some of them got in a yellow truck and started driving it." As soon as he said that part, the funniest look came across his face. Then he says, " Maybe it was a dream! Spiders don't drive yellow trucks! But somebody really did poke me with their bony finger!"

He is one funny kid. I don't remember my other kids having detailed dreams at his age like this. It seems every couple of months he wakes up with a nightmare, and can verbalize his dreams. It is so scary to him, so I feel bad. However, it kind of makes me smile when I hear his dreams, because they are so real and vivid to him.