How many pillows do you sleep with, how do you use them & which can't you do without?

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One memory foam for my head, and a thin, long pillow that rests between my legs when I'm on my side. And I pretty much sleep 90% on my right side. I get strange anxiety when I lay too long on my left, and ever since giving birth I cannot lay on my stomach or back without nearly instant lower back pain. If the knee pillow it is too short, my left ankle gets sore.

I shipped my my memory foam pillow over here, and boy am I glad I did. They apparently don't believe in memory foam, or rectangles, in Germany. All the pillows we see here are these nightmarish downy giant square things that take up 1/3 of the bed and provide 0 neck support. My first 2 months here until my pillow arrived were filled with a lot of pain and sleepless nights.

I didn't ship my knee pillow, because we were limited on how much we could send, and my husband assured me we could by stuff once we got here. Insert giant eye roll because going on 3 months now, and I'm still sleeping with a decorative fish pillow between my knees that gives my ankles 0 support(and has glass eyes I need to avoid when using it). My left ankle is sore most days as I limp around the uneven cobbles here. Ha. I really need to get a propper second pillow soon. Maybe Ikea will have something more suitable.

Interesting topic Whatevs. Its amazing to think how people sleept for hundreds and thousands of years on straw, or at best, thin wool padding. Pillows werent even a thing for most humans! Sounds miserable.

That is so not my experience in Germany...

And of course ikea has it:
http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/50269835/

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ohh..... In Spain, it is common (and it is in line with my experience there) to have what in Portuguese is called a "travesseiro", a pillow that spans the whole bed, from one side to the other. Whoever is in bed shares it.