# A Perfectly Pillow-tastic Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555 "2011-06-15T13:24:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555/1 "2011-06-15T13:24:52Z")
Inspired by the [pillowcase orientation poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=612476), I’m wondering what sort of pillows people are stuffing into their cases. So what’s your favorite kind of pillow(s)? Poll is multiple choice for benefit of the poly-pillow-amorous. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555/2 "2011-06-15T14:04:29Z")
Fiberfill all the way. I’m a side sleeper, so I have two pillows - one very firm, and a slightly softer but still firmish one on top. I can’t stand feather pillows. They flatten out too much while I sleep, and don’t give me the firm support I need. Plus they always end up lumpy and pokey sooner or later. The foam and/or formed pillows are too firm, and don’t mold to my body enough for me. I bring my pillows from home if I’m spending more than a single night somewhere. The wrong pillows or not enough of them just make my neck, shoulders and back ache somethin’ fierce. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555/3 "2011-06-15T14:26:07Z")
Bleh, I had a great post lined up, then found that **WhyNot** had posted it! So yeah, what **WhyNot** said. +1 or whatever. and shit. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555/4 "2011-06-15T14:38:50Z")
I have 4 pillows on my side of the bed. 2 Fibrefill that I replace a couple times a year and two silk filled pillows. I have a feather allergy that I have recently discovered has become much more mild, but still no down in my bedroom. I love both the silk filled pillows and silk filled duvet, they’re both light and comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-pillow-tastic-poll/585555/5 "2011-06-16T05:46:37Z")
My pillow is ergonomically designed. I’ve had two of them so far, and they’ve both lasted me several years (I had the first all through high school _and_ college). In between I had a succession of supposedly extra firm pillows meant for us side sleepers. I went through 2-3 a year because they’d always always always become too flat. Unfortunately, ergonomically designed pillow #2 is heading towards the end of its useful life too now that I’ve had it a few years, and the drug/medical supply store I bought it at no longer carries them ☹ So now I’m looking for a replacement…and I know that memory foam is right out, and that it’s possible to buy an unacceptable ergonomically designed pillow via the internet. Anyone like the pillows with the [water insert](http://www.amazon.com/Mediflow-1006-06-Waterbase-Fiberfill-Pillow/dp/B003J372NS/ref=amb_link_356164342_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=top-2&pf_rd_r=1Y5SWBMANFA7QMZ7104X&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=1304084482&pf_rd_i=water%20insert%20pillow)? Sounds like a good idea, I’m just wondering how sloshy-sounding they are. Then there are the [gel insert](http://www.amazon.com/Malouf-GELLED-MICROFIBER-Filled-Pillow/dp/B004982ZHK/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IA2PMNBCOV3LG&colid=3SS51EEHQ9RCS) ones like this.