My son scares me sometimes

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My son woke up in the night and didn't want to go back to sleep. He is a night owl. I was letting him seeing my esasperation. At first i was sweet, talked to him softly and told him he needed to sleep. The whole, good night, sleep tight. But he wanted to stay awake and chat and be up and about. Then I said things like, "Go to sleep now Robbie!" in a stern voice. Not very nanny like, who thinks you should let them cry in their room and gently put them back to sleep. If Robbie were to scream like he does if I leave him to fall asleep on his own - he'd scream for literally an hour and by the time one of the neighbors would've called the police. I also hate to hear him cry like that! Then I thought he had fallen asleep he had been laying quietly for awhile. then he points to the ceiling and says, "Mommy, Robbie wants to go home, up there!" You can't imagine the scary thoughts that cross my mind at 2AM. He wants to go to heaven? He really is an alien? A hyprid as his dad and I used to joke before he was born. "Up there, Daddy's house!" "Is that mommy's house too (Don't ask me why I was humouring him)? The other wierd thing is that, before I heard him say this - when you're a mom I think you just aware of these things even in the next room. Half listening for a sick child or a nightmare. Oh what I was going to say is that the other wierd thing is that prior to this utturance I was helping myself go back to sleep by "day"dreaming about the mountain home I really want and thinking in detail how I would change and add to this fixer upper. And no, wasn't thinking aloud. I've heard of other strange things kids say, like I died here in this road, I was in a car accident - little kids saying this or describing past lives in detail. My little one has been saying things like, "Mommy robbie alive!" Where he got the concept of alive and not, not sure! Has your child ever said anything really disturbing to you?