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If your answer is more than “one”, it usually means you don’t have the right pillow for your sleeping position. I have broad shoulders and I was a side sleeper. I used two pillows for the longest time, otherwise I had to twist my shoulder in while sleeping, or tilt my head towards the bed, neither being really comfortable for long time periods. Then I bought a thick foam one on sale in some random store I was at, and it made a world of a difference.

I can't deal with more than one.

you don't need multiple pillows you need one that has the right thickness

0 or 1. 2+ is incredibly bad for your neck and sleep. Or you just have paper thin very old pillows and you should replace them with a high quality pillow. I use a Coop brand pillow and it’s customizable to whatever thickness works best for you. Get a good pillow and use 1. Don’t use more.

https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/how-many-pillows-do-you-really-need/

One, anything else is pure decadence (unless you have a neck issue or something).

Two, with the bottom pillow pulled down a bit giving me 2 tiers.

I have wide shoulders and go to sleep on my side, so I need the height, but I tend to roll into my stomach, where 2 is too high, so I wake up on the bottom pillow.

Having 2 in a slanted stack just allows for the perfect height adjustment for neck alignment.

One

0-1 I like it flat.

One, and zero when sleeping on my stomach.

I use 4-5 because I have acid reflux 🤦‍♂️

One ikea shark pillow

1 big memory foam

One, that's the kind of thin you get from it being cheap and way past the point you're supposed to throw it out. Perfection.

None, I sleep on my elbow.

One good latex pillow for me.

For me the stack goes:

• my head
• mostly flat pillow
• my arm
• another mostly flat pillow
• the bed

Big thick squishy pillows (like memory foam) give me neck pain for some reason? I always get one of my boyfriends to "wear in" my pillows for me first 😅

0 I sleep with a blanket under my head. I can fold it as many times as I need to change the height. I can sleep well sideways without having the pillow right in my face like with soft pillows. Also doubles as a eyemask when there is to much light bordering me.

Just the 1 for me. I've got a Simba memory foam cube pillow. It's expensive at £100 (ish) but easily the best thing I've ever slept on. Like sinking into a perfectly supportive cloud. They have an inner bag filled with loads of 1cm memory foam cubes and a good outer case so you don't feel individual cubes. Super comfy.

According to science, anywhere from 1 to 0

Two pillows. Two duvets.

Wait, you guys have more than one pillow?

1 with memory foam. I sleep sideways and on the back. I hate it when pillows are too thin or fluffy but too high is also not good on the neck.

Hijacking this: Can someone answer me why Ikea mainly sells these huge square pillows? They are so uncomfortable to sleep on but they have the nicest pillowcases.

One thick memory foam one. It was expensive but it doesn't lose fluffyness and it fixed my neck problems.

I use one pillow that was sold as travel size, but I prefer it over a thick pillow.

0 Pillows 1 Arm

One buckwheat pillow. They're sort of adjustable. I'm a side/stomach sleeper.

2

Five pillows and a police lock

Three, but they are staggered in a way to make the perfect angles for my head. I have a thick one that's almost vertical with just a little bit sticking out at the bottom for the next pillow (a thin one) to lean onto. Then another thin pillow staggered on that one.

I'm technically only using two pillows of you cooking what my head is over. But the first one allows the second too for that perfect angle for me.

1? Why do you need more?

Two. One classic one and a specific rectangular neck position pillow. I had used only one pillow for years until i met one of my ex. She had around 7 pillows around her bed and used them aplenty, almost as she never wanted to touch the actual bed surface with her head.

A single pillowcube pillow.

To anyone wondering since it's so often advertised, it does a good job as a pillow but it's nothing revolutionary.

Depends on the pillows. Generally, I want enough so that my neck is straight when I'm lying on my side.