I feel like I used to have a satisfactory layout for years but haven’t since found a consistently comfortable arrangement. I like to have a fairly thick pillow or two under my head to accommodate my bad shoulder, a pillow between my thighs to avoid chafed skin, and a pillow for hugging - also mostly for my shoulder.
The head ones tend to get distorted really quickly and it’s really difficult to find a good hugging pillow.
mostly no setup. 1-2 pillows scattered on bed if not on floor, I use them according to hugging needs at that point.
I have that one and nothing more. https://at.tempur.com/kissen/klassische-schlafkissen/comfort-smartcool-kissen-AT83400448.html If it’s too high I use my arm or an edge of the blanket as a pillow.
I tried several pillows made of different materials different brands and everything else. But after all that I concluded the most comfortable I was when I used no pillows.
The big pillow is lying to you. You don’t need a pillow for comfortable sleep \s
big pillow and blahaj
I have two pillows on top of each other, one stuffed with raw wool, and one made from layers of wool and cotton batting. Which one is on top depends on the season.
2 pillows stacked on each other most nights. Sometimes I just have the one. Very rarely I will have none because for some reason that is whats needed to sleep
Body pillow, 3x king size pillows, 2x standard size memory foam pillows, a few square throw pillows, & a 10ft x 10ft blanket.
Pillows arranged into a U shape with my head in the curve. I essentially create a little nest/fort to keep the world away.
Dang, and my kid thinks I have a lot on my bed!
I’m glad you’ve found something that works. Those 10x10 blankets are huge - and pretty cool. I got my wife one a few Christmasses ago and she’s used it on and off since then. I hate folding it solo after washing it, though.
I keep another 10x10 in the storage ottoman to wrap up in watching movies. Best thing ever. Apparently there’s a company that has a 12x12 now, but I can’t justify it (yet, lol)
Buckwheat pillow. Nice and firm, cool, and malleable.
I punch out a divot for my head so it has kind of a neck roll when I sleep on my back, or if I’m reading on my side, I punch a divot for my ear so it’s not squished against my head.
Had it for like 15 years, I miss it whenever we visit my in-laws in another city.
I tried a buckwheat pillow but found it better for sitting on than for resting my head. Can you not take yours with you to the other city?
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I have a similar set-up, except the pillow that goes between my knees is long enough to also hug and then I usually arrange a corner of my blanket on top for extra height.
When it comes to the pillow I rest my head on, I’ve found that the best possible filling is little memory foam cylinders for some reason. Not shredded memory foam, which I’ve also tried, but cylinders. They’re about the size of a finger except thicker, and make the pillow very adjustable - a concept that I always thought should make no sense since memory foam is supposed to keep its shape, and yet I’ve never had a better pillow.
One hard pillow as I sleep on my side and need the neck support. And then one bean bag tube type thing to rest my wrist on so that my arm doesn’t have to be entirely horizontal—more comfortable that way.
I just use the duvet to go between my thighs/knees.
Please, tell me more about the bean bag tube type thing.
It’s the best way I can describe it. It’s an approximately pillow-sized tube filled with the stuff they fill bean bags with.
Gotcha, thanks.
I am sleep on my belly but slightly to the side, I have firm memory foam pillows that isn’t too high for my head. The second pillow is between my legs with one going under and the other over to support the leg on the side I am facing. I used to hug a third pillow but currently hug plushies.
Also a weighted blanket year round with an additional blanket in the winter
I’m a freefall sleeper so even no pillow works, otherwise a pilloe has to be flat and manoeuvred under my chest to stop my neck bending.
Freefall sleepers may have a slightly lower life expectancy but I’m like ‘meh’. Sleeping is nearly half my life.
I’ve never read that term before.
pillow under my head, pillow between my arms/elbows, and a pillow between my knees. 3 pillows total
I hate my knees touching when I sleep too! What pillow do you use for knees?
I don’t know the brand and the tags have long since worn away, but personally I’ve found good luck with a “standard” size memory foam pillow. Memory foam tends to get too warm under my head but hasn’t been an issue for a knee pillow.
i just have 3 standard pillows.
This is gonna sound stupid but I have a collapsed pillow that’s like 10+ years old and I love it
Nice! I had one of those but I think it eventually decayed too far to keep using.
Just an ordinary rectangular pillow. Contrast with European square pillows, which are way too big. It’s served me well for the past 20+ years (yes, the same pillow) as a side sleeper.
My oldest pillow is about fifteen years old and was one of my first purchases in my own home - it’s the one I now use to avoid skin chafing. Back then it was for my head.
I didn’t know European pillows were different, though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
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