Does anyone sleep without a pillow

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How does your neck feel?

had a brilliant sports massage today with osteopath and they recommended sleeping without one.

does anyone do this?

Sometimes i wake up during the night with a sore neck and have to throw my pillow off the bed and sleep without one. Eases stiffness straight away. Especially if im lying on my front, but sometimes my side as well.

Yes have slept on my back without a pillow for 30 years, my spine just feels flatter and more comfortable. If for some reason I want to sleep on my side though I need a pillow.

I have not tried this, but my now as I have shoulder ache a lot. Why do we sleep with pillows anyway?!

When I get a migraine I always sleep with no pillow. Usually only have one flat pillow anyway, find it so much more comfy to be almost flat, 2 pillows definitely hurts my neck.

I have a pillow which is flat as a pancake as I get neck ache with anything higher.

Not with no pillow at all but my pillow is very thin. I have two on the bed to read etc and if I ever fall asleep on them both I really suffer!

Those who sleep without a pillow, do you sleep on your back/front/side?

I sleep on my side so use a pillow. Sometimes in the night I move to my front and ditch the pillow. Apparently if you sleep on your back you should have your shoulders on the pillow too so your neck is not at a weird angle, so no pillow would make sense.

Yes. DH. I think he's an absolute weirdo but apparently he's comfier without one!

I always sleep on my side with my pillow pancake. It's so thin I can make the right support by scrunching it up.

Most pillows are far too high for me, even toddler ones 😂so I just do without

I’m going to try and transition I think

currently sleep with 2!

I sleep on my front without a pillow and always have done.
I too was told by a physio that it was beneficial to sleep without one.

Me

i only get a sore neck if I spend too much time with my phone in hand

I find it far too sore to lie in bed with a pillow

I sleep with one flat pillow or none at all.

Me, always have done, I still have a sore neck a lot though. But I can't sleep on pillows 🤷‍♀️ dh has them stacked a mile high it feels like on his side and rarely has any issues.

Not by choice. I did for 9 months when cosleeping. It was horrible. My back was wrecking by the whole baby shenanigans so I can’t comment on if was helped by the lack of pillow.

I sleep on my side with two big pillows but sleep flat on my front with no pillow. Like a pp said though, if I have a bad migraine I can't have any pillow.

If sleeping on my back, no pillows. On my side I use an adequate quantity to mean my head is level. At home that's two thin ones.

I have a pillow if I sleep on my back or side but ditch it if I’m on my front.
i had a trapped nerve in my neck/shoulder and lying on my front with no pillow was the only comfy position I could sleep in. It was blissful at the time.

I co-slept for a few months with DD, ditched the pillows and they never made it back. I do stack one vertically against the headboard though, so nothing can come up the gap between the mattress & headboard (spiders, creepy crawlers, zombie hands etc). Sleep in the same positions as I did before, haven’t noticed any difference to be honest, adverse or favourable

I sleep on my side so I can’t but if I slept on back, I definitely wouldn’t use a pillow. My choices centre around neck pain rather than general comfort though!

I hate pillows. I like sleeping on my side with my arm bent under my head. However I've just had surgery on my shoulder to put 3 screws in it so I now can't sleep like that on that side ... so haven't slept properly in weeks.

Sanity have you tried a V shaped pillow? I've found that helps recreate that position for my head.

I caved in and bought a pillow that kept popping up as a Facebook ad, guess I was desperate………….anyways been best pillow I’ve ever had, it’s by Easysleeper although I think they’ve had a name change to Groove pillows. There’s a cut out bit for your neck when lying flat on your back and it keeps your neck/spine aligned when on your side, I’ve tried without a pillow but to me that is just the reverse of having too high a pillow as in your head will drop down.