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There are better pillows out there, friend

I'm all ears for recommendations. I've wasted money on pillows that were great for one night and then started causing problems. =(
- Personally I love the memory foam, harder pillow from IKEA I got for £15. It's so comfortable that other pillows feel like shit compared to it. It's not for everyone though
- I went and tried the Purple Harmony pillow when there was a similar thread on Reddit ~1 year ago. It was fantastic! I wanted it sooo bad, but it was just too expensive. I did find out later that Purple runs sales a few times a year. Think the best was around Christmas and it was damn near 50% off. So, I've had it since Christmas and been very happy.
- I've got some generic memory foam pillow, best pillow ever.
- Use https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ to look up what works best for you. I went with latex pillows ten years ago and they're still going strong, though starting to smell like latex recently. Probably time to replace them ...
- I used to be a 2 pillow guy but I've moved down to one. I'm using a Nectar pillow now. It's pricey but so far so good.
- @LtWorf
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073HNLW8Y/ref=ppxyodtbsearchasintitle?ie=UTF8&th=1
  Worth every penny.
  @Matthew
I tried Tempur. Slumbar worked for me as a side sleeper. They have the knee pillow too but it just ends up popping out. I just use the duvet.
Right? My one pillow is just on the verge of almost too much, but I like few pillows and my neck is fucked up.

I have a tempur "soft" pillow and it's too high.

I used to have a beaten up old fuck feather pillow and you could mould it into any shape you needed, it was great! I miss my shitty old pillow, my futuristic pillow isn't the answer.

What’s a fuck feather
- When daddy feather loves mommy feather very much...
- It's the feather of a very rare inverse auto correct bird
- Birds of a feather fuck together. 🪶🪶💞
I feel this. I just moved and a certain family member 'helped' me move by throwing away stuff that I'd already dropped off at my new place that didn't meet their arbitrary standards including, yes, almost all the bedding. So now I'm sleeping through the hottest part of the year with the most unforgivingly thick pillows and the winter duvet.
I have a memory foam pillow (or something like that)for years and stays the exact same hardness. Would really knock someone out in a pillow fight with it. Best pillow ever
This is the way. Any medium fill power down will be like that in a few weeks.
Everything I’ve tried is worse than down. The memory foam pillows are better than the synthetic fake down pillows that are hot garbage.
If your pillow is $10-20 it’s probably not a good pillow.
But pillows are super subjective. My wife grew up with the thicker synthetic ones and hates my pillows. Upside is hers are cheap I guess!

Me in every hotel

And wake up in the morning with a headache and can't move your neck.

The thinner the pillow, the better. Fuck hotels

So... Do you just use the pillow case? 🤔 That would be quite thin.
I have the purple pillow. It's great! Both sides are "the cold side" and, if needed, you could kill a man with it!
- My wife has one of these. I don't like the weird texture it has and often refer to it as her "space waffle" pillow, which gets a laugh out of her.
I bring a couple of pillows from home whenever I can. Doesn't work for flights, of course, but on shorter trips it's a godsend.
- I use one of those bags with a pump to shrink my pillow to a tiny size for travel. Fits great in the luggage then.
My mom uses like ten thousand pillows to sleep and I just cannot. I need a thin pillow, so I like ones that are already "broken in". How do side sleepers manage to sleep with thick pillows and not hurt their necks?

Life pro tip for side sleepers who need a super thick / fluffy pillow:

Buy a king sized pillow and put it in a normal sized pillow case that has one of those little flaps at the open end. The extra stuffing compressed to a normal sized pillow makes for the best thick pillow.

Get one of those pillows where you can remove or add stuffing - Be your own Walter White.

I can't handle that kind of pressure

You should learn how to fluff your pillow

Your body posture also plays a part and if you have horrible posture that can contribute to pain

I have the posture of an ice age caveman huddled for warmth.

Tempted to buy a message table and sleep on it. Sleeping face down seems like the real solution here.
- i have never found those things to be very comfortable on my face.
- There was post in diwhy reddit how to make pillow to sleep face down

I use one old flat pillow on the bottom and one new pillow on the top. Perfect 1.5 pillow height every night.

Where my no pillow gang at? You have an arm! Use it

Wait are you being for real? That can't be good for your neck. I've fallen asleep like that 1 time when i got way too high on the zaza and i had the worst neck pain ever.
- Haven't used a pillow in five years. Your spine is meant to be straight at night, so no pillow is the way to go. It is also helpful if you have breathing issues.
My pillow is so thin my wife is like "well just put a towel in the pillowcase"
Yeah, way better for my neck
I sleep on my back without a pillow.
But I still have a pillow so I can look at my phone.

Seems more like a meme than a shit post

Two is just right for sleeping on the side if the bottom pillow is super firm and the top pillow is super not firm.

And here I am with a half stuffed pillow because a full pillow makes me choke on my sleep

You need to find the right pillow. This is important for good quality sleep. For instance I know that i need a thin pillow if I am on a soft bed but a thicker pillow if I am on a firm bed.

Neck support pillows entered the chat ...

I use a Costco memory foam on top of a really thin shitty feather pillow I've had forever. The memory foam is like a cm or two too short for my neck to be comfortable so the feather pillow is used to lift it up that extra bit.

I have whiplash and two pillows is just right. I'm blessed.

But one folded over is just right.

I got a buckwheat pillow and I'm never going back. It's perfect.

I had a buckwheat pillow but the zipper broke six months in.
It's not fun cleaning up all the little shells at three in the morning.
- Yeah that would be horrible

I can recommend water pillows.

Bolster pillow gang rise up.