I've slept with one and two pillows. Usually just one, but I have to flip it over generally and fluff it up a bit. With two, they have to be thin enough where they aren't lifting my head up too much or else it'll be uncomfortable.

I use two big fluffy pillows, maybe I'll use three if the two I have are really flat. Also, I usually sleep on my back, maybe on my side if I curl up.

I don't sleep on my front, but I do sometimes wake up on my stomach, especially if I wake up multiple times a night or have a bad nights sleep.

In the military, it's one pillow. And the pillows suck.

But, here in civilian life, i have 2 pillows. I generally only use one at a time though. I do have a pillow-top mattress though, and man is it comfy. Oh yes, and my pillows are feathered. I think that i like them more than cotton, but honestly it's not a big deal. Either will work, but feathered squish more... :3

a strange topic in a way, but very interesting at the same time. ^^

i usually have two pillows, both feather filled. the under one is fat and heavy and a bit firmer, while the upper one is thinner and more 'fluffy' if you get me.

these get rearranged when i try to get comfy for sleep each night. if i can sleep on my back or side, i have both pillows under my head, but if i find sleeping on my front the most comfy, i have to sleep with my head resting on only the thinner pillow or else i get a horrible ache in my neck.

i've got poor circulation so my limbs fall asleep easily. there's no way i'd put a pillow between my legs if i was to sleep on one side. BOTH my legs would go dead! oo;

i found that sleeping propped up was best post-surgery too. as using stomach muscles = intense pain, there would be no way i could get up or down from the bed unaided, so sleeping with a ton of pillows behind me helped.

I always have one pillow (usually flat) under my head and one beside me. I usually sleep on my right side - oddly, I NEVER sleep on my left side.

I sleep with one pillow under my head, and I usually fall asleep on my stomach.

I use two. A Tempur-Pedic one for my head that I've slept on for years, and a fluffy regular one that I keep at my side. Ever since I rearranged my bed, this second one tends to stay on the left side of the bed, while I sleep on the right. I tend to sleep on both sides (even if I go to sleep on my back, I'm turned over by the morning), so the pillow either ends up on my front or back, depending on how I wake up.

Not sure when I started doing this. Sometime in college, I think. When I was younger, I used to just use two regular pillows under my head.

I tend to two, it dosn't acutally seem to matter how fluffy or fat they are, so I ususally just get the cheepest possible. As for sleeping, I then toward on my side for the most point. Although I have a bruise on my big toe at the moment from sleeping on my front with my toes hooked up over the bed.

Worst idea for sleeping ever was when I woke up a couple of years ago, having slept with both arms down the gap behind my bed. I couldn't physically move either XD

For years I've used two, but I recently adopted another one and it helps. My original entourage was one somewhat stiff, folded-in-half-and-stuffed-into-a-pillowcase maternity pillow underneath my head (I sleep on my side) and and another, a fluffy feather pillow, covering my exposed ear to muffle the sound of the splashing of my turtle's water filter (thank god I'm replacing the who thing with a bigger, quieter one next week). This is also convenient for me because my clock radio has no headphone jack, so when I'm listening to loveline at night I can place it under my stiff underpillow below my ear and it allows me to hear and others outside to not. A few weeks ago I put a mid-firm-level under the whole thing, which sandwiches the radio and lets my head and arm be at different levels. =D

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I do have a pillow-top mattress though, and man is it comfy.

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Ah, man, I wish I had something like that, my mattress blows.

lol @ bedding disertations

Two pillows that are either fluffy and squishable or flat, justto get myhead on the right level. Either a pillow or, more commonly, a section of the blanked between my knees. Iusually sleep on miy right side or, oddly, whichever side is facing the narest wall/couch back. Usually I keep my arm under both pillows, elbow bent with my hand "resting" between the headboard corner and the wall. When this is not possible, I just tuck my arm as close to the rest of my body as possible.

...I sleep weird.

When I saw this topic name I was thinking of something else...

BUT ANYWAY...

I sleep with 3 pillows, two under my head and 1 under my feet. Because I'm cool like that.

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When I saw this topic name I was thinking of something else...

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It's called bait-and-switch.

Pillows? More like pillow. Odd thing is, every time I wake up it's lying on the floor instead of under my head.

I use two... one for my head, one between my legs.

I only use one for my head at home. While I'm in my dorm, I stick one of those body pillows on the side, so I don't kill myself by hitting the wall next to my bed.

Hmm. I sleep with two pillows under my head. Both are flat and virtually squishless due to me using them for everything from cushions to sit on, place to rest my back against, a makeshift table for drawing, leaning my entire weight on it as I lay across them....

I have two other pillows on my bed, but I rarely use either. One just kinda sits next to me, the other is a pedestal of sorts for my stuffed animals. >>;

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I like to have my head elevated a bit when I sleep - it can't possibly be good for my back in the long run, but who cares? - so it's generally two big fluffy pillows, or three flat ones.

Maybe four pillows if I put one down at my feet. >>

1 body pillow which lies at the head of my bed, 3 regular pillows which lie on top of the body pillow, and one large square pillow which lies wherever I want it to that night.

Sometimes, on really hot nights, I'll use my blanket as a pillow, and snuggle up next to the open window.

Sorry, but this topic just makes me think of one thing.

Anyway, I like to have two pillows, which I sleep on face down. Yeah, I'm gonna die of suffocation some day.

I guess I'm pretty odd. I have two pillows (I can manage with one but don't like it), and both are under my head. However, only one of the pillows is at the top of the bed. The other is hugged/laid on, but held so it overlaps with the top pillow and I put my head there. I'm not bothered about the stuffing of the pillow but I like them soft and thick. I do NOT like fluffy furry pillows, eww. I sort of sleep half on my side and half on my front, and sort of half curled up if you get my meaning. I sometimes sleep on other sides, but that's usually if I'm ill (front) or if something's putting me off sleeping on my right (like someone else sleeping on that side). If I'm on my front one of the pillows generally goes AWOL. I don't think I sleep on my back at all.

I think I got the pillow hugging trait when we went on one of my family's extremely rare holidays. We were in a self-catering chalet and I got the broken bed =( I had to get comfortable some way

Comfort isn't a problem for me, as I could probably fall asleep anywhere. So any amount of pillows is fine, and I generally lie on my back so my face doesn't get any breakouts from making out with a sweaty pillow.

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Odd thing is, every time I wake up it's lying on the floor instead of under my head.

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Just like my teddy bear! =D

uh....

I mean....

*runs off*

Don't feel bad. I have a huge stuffed teddy that I sleep with, plus a stuffed Bumblebee.

One fairly thick pillow. That's about all I need.

Just the one. Two makes my neck ache, and I can't sleep that way.

Although when I'm in a tent at LARP events, I'll either use a rolled-up coat, one of my spare bags or even just an arm under my head, and it works well enough.

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so my face doesn't get any breakouts from making out with a sweaty pillow.

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if you changed the pillowcase enough, it shouldn't be sweaty. oo;

dragging the topic a bit off-track, but i'm curious as to what bed coverings you all use.
i normally have a summer-weight feather filled dovet cover, with a blanket on top when it gets cold in winter. i normally tuck it under myself all around like some odd coccoon and half over my head so my ears are covered.
extra blankets/pillows are added when it gets colder, in a process called by a few as the 'becca nesting technique'. ^^

I have one of those double-weight duvets, with a lightweight summer layer, a heavier winter layer and the ability to velcro them together and make something you could fry an egg in.

sort of like those toaster bags you put food in, then cook in the toaster?

(still, that sounds really handy.. ^^)

I use a lot of pillows. Although, sleeping on a futon, you're only supposed to have one... I always wake up with half of my pillows next to the bathroom door... which is in a complete other side of my house...

I use one pillow, often quite flat and firm as I rarely change the pillow itself so it gets worn out. I also use a single quilt of varying thickness depending on season. If I get to hot I usually just put the quilt underneath me instead.

That said, I can sleep on pretty much anything if needs be. When I don't have access to a pillow I will usually use a hoodie or something as a makeshift one.

1 pillow, anything else gives me neck-ache. The other pillow is there for decoration and 'cos a double bed looks odd with only one.

I wish I could sleep on my back, because I'm sure I'd get fewer backaches, but it's almost physically impossible. I trained myself out of it when I was about 10, having had the following revelation: I always woke from nightmares on my back, therefore sleeping on my back *must* have been the cause. Therefore sleeping on my side means no nightmares. I haven't had one since then either, so it must work

I have a 10.5 tog duvet for summer and a 13.5 tog duvet for winter, supplemented when it gets chilly with a big old woven counterpane with a huge cheetah woven on it.

In Spain I used to have an empty sheet without a duvet in the summer. Doesn't matter if it's 30 degrees indoors, I have to have something covering me or I can't sleep.

In fact, I think I have vague sleep issues. Must be covered, must be lying down, must be in a bed / sofa bed, not on a train, plane or automobile. Oh and I cannot get to sleep within at least 45 minutes from going to bed, maybe more. I dislike those folk (like my parents) who tell me they get to sleep within 15 minutes of getting into bed... Lucky sons of guns!

DW