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.
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’m on the buckwheat train. Tried different pillows and ended up with buckwheat. The pillow allows you to mold the shape to an extent which makes it extremely flexible. They also come in different sizes and good pillow sellers will either overstuff them or give you a bag with extra stuffing. You can open the pillow up (via zipper usually) to remove and add more buckwheat for even more customization. It’s just extremely flexible overall.
I’ve been thinking of getting one, are there any downsides you’ve noticed? Like how noisy is it cause I’m a restless light sleeper
Jumping on the buckwheat train. I was terrible at pushing all my pillows into the bedhead and waking up with a bent neck before picking up one of these. Another benefit is they don’t get uncomfortably warm. It’s really nice that I can wriggle to flatten it out for back sleeping, or fluff it up to the perfect height for side sleeping.
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.
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.
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
Same. Hotel pillows are too thick for the head/neck. There should be 2 different pillows, a thick and firm one for hugging, and a thinner and softer one for the head.
The thinner the pillow, the better. Fuck hotels
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 got used to the texture pretty quick, and it’s well worth it. I even got a purple mattress, which is just as great
I’m definitely not paid by Purple, haha
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.
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.
