When I was a kid, I would sleep with the covers pulled over my head to hide from the dinosaurs. I thought they hid during the day and came out at night to eat you. I don't know where something that big could hide during they day, but as a child things don't always have to make sense, obviously!
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that hydrangeas were so called because rangers hide in them.— Ross
- 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
- When I was a child, I used to think that the humans grow up like the dinosaurs — Pretty
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.— Teacher LM
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.