I am sitting here with Mr. Ujest who is complaining about how many pillows I need to be comfy in bed.
I need at least five (buckwheat hull) pillows. Most are against the head board.
He has just informed me that I all I need is him as a pillow.
He thinks I am abnormal ( to put it mildly.) He’s a little slow on the uptake, eh?
So, to decide what is normal, I thought I would throw this question out to the world.
5?!!! Wow!!
If I’m reading in bed, I like to have at least 2 pillows to support my back and head. But while sleeping, I don’t use pillows at all. Somehow, using a pillow always gives me a pain in the neck and shoulders.
I sleep with one but it is at least twice the size of a regular pillow. My wife has one as well. She has to make the pillowcases from two regular ones.
One. No more, no less.
How do you use the other pillows? Really, I’d like to know. I never know what to do with them on the rare occasion I stay at a good hotel.
I would like to state that Mr. Ujest also refuses to put pillow cases on my pillows because I don’t need that many pillows.
I think this is the first time he has actually made the bed with me in attendance and is *caught * red handed not completing his duties, and I, the nagging shrewish wife that I aspire to be, have informed him that he must finish the chore he choose to do under House Hold Law #238: You started the chore, you finish the chore in a reasonable amount of time. **
I know I am not the norm, but I prefer one pillow.
I have neck and shoulder pain and it feels uncomfortable to have my neck raised high.
I have never really found the right pillow.
One pillow, extra firm.
I have three myself. Not huge, just sort of medium sized.
Since I’ve developed a touch of hip arthritis, it’s been suggested I try one of those humungous body-pillow thingies, to help keep my hips from twisting during the night. Not sure how that would work but I’d be willing to give it a try.
~Sky~ may I heartily recommend a buckwheat hull pillow. I suffered from neck and shoulder pain for years from being on the phone all day at work. In a weak moment late at night, I gave in to an infomercial and bought one of the pillows. I now take one with me whenever I travel. I make my own. *I could do an infomercial on the damn things I am that enthusiastic about them *
But I will spare you all from that debacle.
Two pillows of medium firmness.
Until a few weeks ago, we never had a headboard. I cannot stand my hand touching the wall when I sleep, as it is an outside wall and always cooler to the touch. So, I stack my pillows stragetically so that no matter which way I lay, my hands are protected from the wall.
I could sleep with gloves on, I guess.
Five. Ans two are those big pilows that really belong on your couch.
Another weird thing is, I have to sleep with a pillow balanced on top of my head. I just started doing this in the last few years, but now I must have it. And also, because I’m prone to sleep paralysis, I have to make sure the pillow is balanced on the side of my head so my mouth and nose are free. This is really more to prevent panic than suffocation.
Four feather pillows: two under my head, one to hold onto (if I’m on my left side) or to tuck against my back (if I’m lying on my right side), and one for show. OK, that’s weird.
I usually end up with one of my pillows atop my head by morning. I like the pressure.
Usually when I wake up in the morning, my wife has about five or six pillows. My dog is often curled up on the floor with one pillow. Sometimes I have a pillow as well, usually the “pancake.” It’s only fair that everybody else gets the pillows, though, because they get covers.
. . . because they get all the covers.
I sleep with three pillows, usually. Not too thick or fluffy, though, or my head slides off. Extra-firm only.
I also have a giant body pillow that I hug next to me when I sleep on my stomach. Keeps my back from hurting when I hug something to me, even if it’s just a blanket, when I sleep in that position.
Another hearty endorsement for the buckwheat pillows! Got two for Christmas, proof that Mrs. D6 really does love me.
I heard about them, a saw a travel sized one at the Big Lots, so I picked it up. WOW! Then, as is the course of things around here, the dogs ate it. I stapled it back together and stuck it in a sturdy pillow case, cause I’d been converted and doing without was simply out of the question.
Kept my eyes open for another one at every subsequent trip to Big Lots. Of course, due to the devilish nature of that place, I never could find another. Until December 23. WooHoo! Happiness, thy name is Buckwheat!
Imagine my surprise when a mere 36 hours later I open a box with two full sized bed pillows generously stuffed with the hulls of the gods. Heaven, I tells ya!
Of course, there’s always a downside.
Mrs. D6 tried them. Of course, she was immediately converted. Sigh. I suppose I can’t blame her. She does appreciate the finer things in life (she did marry me, after all). I’m happy to share. Sort of.
Anyway, to answer to poll in the OP…
I usually have about 5 pillows or so. I don’t require the whole pile to be buckwheat. In fact, I’m not sure that a stack wholly composed of buckies would work for me. I have a whole architecture thing going on. I build a solid foundation to raise the pile to the correct height so that my head is supported at the correct angle to minimize neck strain. The foundation is topped with the comfortable pillow(s).
Formerly the comfy pillow was stuffed with down, was generally ancient and had an indescribable combination of softness and firmness which could only be acheived through years of use. Now I’ve been able to reach (nay, improve upon) that comfort level with a buckwheat pillow off the shelf. I’m a happy man.
I think the pillow thing must be hereditary. Youngest daughter is worse than I am about them and always has been. Luckily I’ve been able to distract her sufficiently to prevent her from discovering my treasures for the past two weeks. I must be vigilant or I’ll never see them again…
One. A sort of soft and flattish one. I sleep on my stomach in “mountain climber” position, so a thin one is all I need.
I might just try me one of those buckwheat ones.
Two regular pillows and one Body Pillow. The Body pillow the most wonderful invention ever. I love the thing.