I have seriously struggled with sleep most of my life. I think back to my childhood and how I would struggle to get to sleep. I started developing strategies for the nighttime including breathing techniques and doing pushups next to my bed as young as just 8-10 years old. I have always struggled with it.
I would also normally be nodding off at my desk at school and none of this ever made any sense to me. How is it that I can be absolutely exhausted in a comfortable bed but in an awful school desk that has the chair attached to it I am bobbing back and forth struggling to stay awake.
This extended into my adult life and even now here in Vietnam. I am lucky in that I rarely have to wake up for anything at any particular time. I do have a job but the hours are up to me for the most part. The only time that I really have a schedule as far as waking up is when I have a flight going somewhere and because of Nadi, I don't really travel all that much.
There she is: confused and wondering what I am up to!
Well, I was trying to get a good picture of something that has seriously changed my sleeping game as of late and I couldn't really get the lighting done right so for a lot of this you are just going to have to take my word for it.
I have been looking for a high quality pillow for a while now and had even gone so far as to order this $60 pillow from a company called My Pillow in the USA that some people swear is the best pillow ever made. By the time it got here this pillow had cost me $100, which is much more than I ever thought I would ever pay for a damn pillow. It's awful too. I struggle to even find a use for it. It's not comfortable and it isn't the right one for me.
I have also purchased many pillows from Lotte (which is like a Wal-Mart) just based on advertising. These pillows were always vacuum sealed in their containers and I understand why the manufacturer would do this for saving space on shipping, but as far as being a consumer is concerned this is an absolutely awful method of trying to shop for a pillow.
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You've probably seen them in the store. You have no idea what you are actually going to get until you break the seal. I have purchased at least 3 of these and all of them were either too huge so that my neck would need to get nearly vertical to use them, or they were made of horrible materials that, well, I don't know how to describe it but it didn't work.
Well the other day I was frustrated with my sleep patters or lack thereof and I decided that just before bowling, I was going to go to the bedding section of the superstore and just buy the most expensive pillow that they had and that is exactly what I did.
I'm not super wealthy, but I am also not poor. I'm smart with my money but when it comes to something like sleep, I think it is worthwhile to spend more money to be comfortable. Since we spend about 30% of our lives asleep I think this is a good place to drop some dough.
900,000 VND is close to $100, so even though I wasn't thrilled about spending this much on a pillow (again!) I had made a deal with myself and I decided to follow through.
Great googley moogley has this thing been an absolute game-changer as far as my sleep is concerned. The first night it was just a completely different situation than I am used to. I was comfortable right away. This is not memory foam, it is not soft, it is not hard, it is just like Goldilocks in that it was just perfect. It allows your head to soak into the pillow but also offers neck support. It is fluffy, but it also isn't too soft.
I don't really know how to describe it but it has been a godsend and I have not struggled to get to sleep at all ever since I bought it. Maybe the thing here is Tencel (whatever that is) or the microfiber. There seems to be some strange NASA chemicals involved in my pillow and it is probably giving me cancer or something like that. I honestly don't care anymore though, being able to get to sleep and stay asleep is something that is just so foreign to me that I will gladly pay $100 and accept the fact that strange space fibers might be used in its creation.
I don't get excited about very many things in life but my friends here locally are already tired of hearing me talk about it but I don't care. This has been such a huge and terrible issue for me for so long that I want to shout it from the mountaintops. If you hate your pillow or struggle with sleep write down the composition of what is in this pillow because it has changed my nighttime and naptime sleep game for the better. It's like night and day haha.
I'm just so thrilled and so is Nadi because now I don't have to wake her up 17 times a night with my tossing and turning!