I believed when I was going to bed that dinosaurs roamed the streets, peeking in the windows with one huge eye to check everyone was sleeping. I don't know what would happen if you weren't sleeping, I was always sure to at least feign sleep.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- I'm deaf in one ear. Until I was 7 I believed that if I didn't sleep on my good ear, dinosaurs would eat me.Anon
- I believed that Santa Clause lived on the moon. I mean how else could he see you when you was sleeping? — danger101
- I used to believe Dragons were real like Dinosaurs. I found out the other day they weren't.. Haha. Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty