Dragons exist ....

  E. doesn't have nightmares so often

Sometimes I hear him

mumbling in the middle of the night

but he never tells about scary dreams

He doesn't fear dragons or monsters

but he is afraid of ghosts and darkness

For this reason he doen't want to go upstairs

(where we have bedrooms) 
alone

He falls asleep with small star-shaped turned on lights 

hanging on the shelf opposite his bed

that we turn off as soon as he falls asleep

and when he wakes up in the night

he can turn them on

and go on sleeping

with their reassuring light

 

Lately he sometimes wakes up

in the middle of the night

and asks if he can join us

in the "big bed"

Not because of nightmares or ghosts

but just in

search of hugs

♥