What're you Using for a Pillow?

I'm on my second D-Core pillow. It took a while to get used to, but has generally changed my life. You can get them on Amazon. Well worth the premium. https://www.coreproducts.com/products/d-core-orthopedic-pillow

I'm a back sleeper and I don't move much. That baby cradles me perfectly. Like I said, it does take some getting used to. I even had a few nights of it when I got a new one. It's a very firm cradle.

Dense down. The lighter one goes under my head and the heavy one over.

The newfangled memory foams and what have you don’t cut it for me, save it for hospital positioning in operating rooms, imo

You can keep the weighted blankets too

Still swear by the i-comfort pillow.

I don't know if this is an example of "politics makes strange bedfellows" but the My Pillow guy is a Trump wackadoodle:

"'God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on,' he said about Trump’s election. Now, he said, with a little more prayer and the help of the president and his team, it wouldn’t be long before America returned to its rightful spot as the greatest nation on earth."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-the-mypillow-guy-the-f...

I've tried all the new foam kinds and always go back to a firm feather / down pillow when I can find them on sale. 
Buying a pillow cover protects them, and I throw it in the dryer w/ wool dryer balls occasionally.

Why do I sleep better on hotel pillows? Maybe hotels change them more often? I know there are pillow websites where one can buy pillows used by major hotel chains, but have never tried those sites.

LL Bean has some nice pillows. A little more expensive but worthy for sure.

I'm strictly a stomach sleeper, which sucks in a few ways, but there is no option.

I buy Wal Mart cheapo's and smash 'em into sort of a "V" for my face with my fists, as my arms are obviously spread out. Then I can at least fall asleep with my neck not totally bent to one side.

I'm wide open to better idea's from stomach-sleeper's.

The only way I could ever sleep on my stomach is if my head was cradled on one of those things they have on massage tables.

It's a bit of a curse, Brian, but it does deter snoring.

I've got a couple Target brand My Pillows. They were $30 each. Pretty comfortable. 

Sleep tight!

the My Pillow guy is a Trump wackadoodle<<<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1B2XxMngY

^ I wouldn't send even a dime in this guy's direction

Another stomach sleeper here. I used the same long, thin pillow for probably 20 years. Looked rancid when you took the cover off, but I couldn't sleep on anything remotely thick. Finally threw it away.

I like what I have now. I just looked to see what it is, and it's a Bluewave Bamboo pillow. I must've got it as a gift because I don't recall buying it.

I think this is it. It looks thinner than the photo. And there's a few different variations listed there as well. It's described as foam but it doesn't feel too foamy and doesn't sleep hot at all.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XPMNP76/?tag=sleeptalkse-20&th=1

Who would've ever thought finding a really thin, long pillow would be so difficult? 

Bamboo 

Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too

I use a pillow.

Fuck the My Pillow guy

^^^  That sounds somewhat horrific as a night's sleep goes, Surf- care to elaborate?

Glad things are improving for you, Sio... hands under the new pillow in classic stomach-mode?

No, that was Bob. I have a thin, ratty old pillow - it works.

i only can sleep on my sides.

my f'd up shoulders hate it.

we got a my pillow thing as a recommendation from a family member. the travel ones are ok, the others are meh.

i use like 4 regular down ones. the heaviest i use under my shoulders/torso.

fucked up shoulders/neck...and ever since i had surgery and couldn't sleep on my preferred side, my other hip is all janky.

i've tried a bunch of shit and nothing seems to really work. 

>>^ I wouldn't send even a dime in this guy's direction

Thanks for sleep-shaming me.  I demand a list of all companies you've bought consumer products off of this year.  and an APOLOGY!<<<

I was speaking for myself, but at the same time would readily get on board with an app that alerted a consumer before making a purchase whether said business was a Trump supporter.

It's a giant racket, why not starve the fire of the oxygen it needs to flourish?

After reading several WWII books in recent days regarding concentration camps and POW's of the Japanese, I think we all should feel sleep shamed!

My pillow guy used to be a heavy drug addict.  

Not changing your pillows out every so often is gross.

Probably should have said he turned it all around.  Dude is worth something like $300 million.

Turts, truly the Core pillow I linked to. It could change your side sleeping life.

my pillow is the #1 biggest advertiser on tucker carlson 

My Pillow is the biggest advertiser on Tucker Carlson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/07/14/tucker-carlsons-biggest-...

Sweet edit, Bss. ;-)

Thanks mike had to jog my memory a second there

I meant to paste the link, thank you 

Life's complicated enough right now- I don't need to bring politics into consideration when buying a pillow<<<

"Just" a pillow, kind of like a marshmallow ....

After sleeping on the ground or a board for months or years on end, when POWs were finally liberated they had a very difficult time sleeping on a mattress with a pillow. 

A week or 2 ago my pillow was my arm for a week or two.

ok bk will check it. thanks.

Siobud, 

I was, and to an extent still am, a stomach sleeper.  I think it contributed to or made worse my neck and shoulder problems, which eventually required some pretty serious surgeries. I still have to care for and "rehab" myself on a daily basis.   My recommendation, just from my own experience, for what that's worth, is that you have to train yourself to sleep on your back or side.  It's not easy. I had no choice, post surgically.  Eventually, you can break yourself of the stomach sleeping habit.  It's bad for your neck and arm/shoulder if you, like me, stick your arm over your hand as a pillow while you sleep on your stomach/face.  Just think about the posture/ergonomics!  

Medicate, if that's your thing and need, hold still, meditate, and fall asleep on your back.  Good luck!

For months, Donald Trump promoted the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 therapy, even claiming to have taken a course of the anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic. But as the evidence against its effectiveness and potential dangers continues to mount—Dr. Anthony Fauci last month emphasized that studies have “consistently” shown the drug to have “no efficacy” in treating coronavirus—the president may have begun to turn toward a new, unproven miracle cure, this one peddled by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and...MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell?

Yes, you read that right. Carson and the pillow pitchman, a GOP megadonor and Trump ally, have gotten the president interested in an experimental botanical extract they say could treat COVID-19, raising concerns among some government officials, Axios reported Sunday. Trump, who has been searching for an easy way out of the coronavirus crisis since it started, has reportedly “expressed enthusiasm” for Oleandrin, as Carson and Lindell push for Food and Drug Administration approval, though—like hydroxychloroquine—there is no proof that it works. “The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and MyPillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic,” a senior administration official familiar with the matter told Jonathan Swan.

Read more:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/the-mypillow-guy-wants-to-bring-trumps-covid-miracle-cure-to-life

My Pillow Schmuck on CNN toting an Unproven cure for COVID.

Anderson Cooper Not Having it.

Sooo- where's your  arm go on the side your sleeping on, exactly, side-sleeper's? That's thorny, too.

Back sleeping is the way to fly, but what I have left of a brain ain't havin' it. 

Sooo- where's your  arm go on the side your sleeping on, exactly, side-sleeper's? That's thorny, too.<<<

Under the pillow or along my body.

Often have a pillow under the other arm and one in between the legs (sciatic).

At this point, if I had a my pillow, I'd literally go outside and burn it ... and post a video online.

It's a kissing cousin of owning a product based upon nazi research.

>>I'd literally go outside and burn it ... and post a video online.

Are you one to burn sports jerseys when your favorite athete(s) leave town?<<<<

Nope, can't say I follow sports much at all these days ... would much rather be a participant than a spectator.

Having said that, the last interest I recall having as a spectator was picking my ass up to go to a bar a few times to watch Michael Jordan on the Wizards (I didn't have tv at the time).

>hold still, meditate, and fall asleep on your back.  Good luck!

Thank you- that's some real, practical advice.  I appreciate it.

You left out the most important part, medicate first!  Sleeping on the stomach is a habit - a bad one - that you can break over time. 

So is this a serious pillow thread or a fuck The my pillow guy thread?? 

I use a Tempur-Pedic I bought a knock off... my mom bought me the real thing... there’s a difference Tempur-Pedic is better.. I wouldn’t say it’s a huge difference but worth the extra money.. 

fuck The my pillow guy Anderson Cooper made him look like a huckster idiot today 

^ lol

I hear you, Jay.  Edibles are expensive and dosed in 10 mg now here, in California, too, on the regulated markets - both medical and rec.  I used to be able to buy high strength, relatively inexpensive edibles from delivery services on Weedmaps, but the State really cracked down on the unlicensed dispensaries. Now, I pay the rip off prices for edibles from the licensed delivery services.  

Vaping bud might be healthier than smoking it. I'm sure we won't know for years.  I prefer vaping anyway, now, as its more discreet.  I no longer like the smell of burning buds,  but still love the smell of unburned herb.  I vape a lot. Probably, too much! 

As far as sleep, I prefer edibles about an hour before going to bed, as I think it helps me stay asleep.  I also second whomever recommended the long, body pillow. I don't use one of those, but do like a  long King sized pillow, I think that's it's called. Also, if you have trouble staying on your back, in favor of reverting to stomach sleeping, I'd recommend tring sleeping on your side with a pillow between  your knees. It's a good "in between" position and it helps with spinal posture, particularly low back, but neck too imo. 

Unrelated to all that.  Big respect for raising and taking of your family as a single parent.  It's hard enough, I know, with a spouse.  

My first year of college, I was randomly appointed a roommate in the dorms, a rather conservative, socially awkward guy from Queens, New York.  I had a gigantic oversized pillow on my bed to lean against.  One day, my roommate must have been having a particularly challenging day.  He politely asked if he could borrow my pillow for a minute.  It was a somewhat odd request, but I figured what's the harm and said sure, go ahead.  He took the pillow back to his bed and proceeded to pummel it with a series of fist punches.  He then quietly walked it back across the room, placed it back on my bed, and said "thanks, that's much better".  I worked hard to cultivate that relationship for the rest of that year.  He was wrapped really tight, and I was one of only two people who ever really talked with him.  He was studying Russian and hoped to get a job working for the C.I.A.  I was dropping acid and organizing Get Leid parties for the dorm.  We were an Odd Couple.  Wonder how it turned out for him?

I went through the whole vape, edibles, tincture thing recently and finally went full circle to my youth and bought a bong. I keep it in an air tight container that I bought for the bong in the garage. So don't have to deal with the smell. But have to say way easier on my lungs than the vape and I can dial in exactly how altered I want to be which is next to impossible with edibles and tincture. Also by far the most economical way to smoke.

That's a funny picture, FOM.  I agree- fuck that guy.  He did provide a better alternative pillow to me for the same price as the one I hated from Target.  Perhaps with my next pillow purchase I will look elsewhere but I'm relieved for now.  BK's suggestion looks appealing and in the same price range<<<

I didn't make the pic, just hijacked it!

Didn't even get a chance to take in what this guy is all about until watching the bit on Anderson Cooper ... it was like watching him interview an evil version of Crazy Eddie from Minnesota (takes him a little while to get worked up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spouhfBiQjs

Yeah, BK's core pillow looks interesting ... although have had good results as a side sleeper on a relatively flat tempurpedic.   Also use a regular pillow between my legs for sciatica.

Cold ground was my bed last night

and rock; was my pillow too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mInB5bwJMI4

Kind o' generic Tulos brand , came with the mattress. Very  happy. Side and back sleeper.

I use the tempurpedic memory foam pillow. I bought a knockoff my mom bought me the real thing.. the real thing is better 

Ditto BlackPeter. Been using Tempurpedic mattress and pillows since 2004. Couldn't be happier especially the king long flat one as I'm a stomach or back preferable sleeper too. 
 

"Fuck the My Pillow guy!"

Absolutely. Another despicable nut case POS. 

How the fuck can anyone get kicked off of Newsmax

^^^^ the producers wouldn’t take him off because he buys all the advertising.... the reporter walked off 

https://coophomegoods.com/products/king-bamboo-shredded-memory-foam-pill...

this is pretty good.

Anyone else getting pillow adds now ?

"David Hogg launching pillow company to compete with MyPillow's Mike Lindell"

https://news.yahoo.com/david-hogg-launching-pillow-company-190047385.html

https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1357318752992387080?s=20

I support these kids/young adults in March for our Lives, and this is one of the reasons why I do not mind sending them money, they are the ones that can spin this country in a better place. Yes this appears to be a personal venture now, but examine his business plan. They are a machine now. I know the little bit of money I send them is going towards real democracy saving ideas.

I will be first in line for a couple of pillows

https://marchforourlives.com/