Narcotic pillows

I have a  problem.

Ok, so maybe I have more than a single problem, and possibly some more important than the one I’m referring to,  however it’s a problem I’m losing sleep over. Literally.

My pillows are bad. Not bad in the sense that the rob old ladies and drive through residential areas late at night their stereo turned up to 11, but bad in the sense of not good.  Not comfy if you will.

Why, I ask you, is it so difficult to find a decent pillow? I have 3 types on my bed currently. 1 type (of which there are 2) are too soft. Another is too hard. And the third is too …..well it’s difficult to describe, so lets just say “squidgy”. I’ve not bought a huge number of pillows in my life, but every time I buy new ones I know exactly what I’m looking for, but whatever I eventually end up buying just never seems to quite hit the mark.

And what makes it even more annoying, is that every time I am in a hotel the pillows they have are pretty near perfect. I don’t know if every hotel chain in the world knows of the same pillow store that doesn’t sell to the public, but hotel pillows are generally significantly more comfortable than any pillows I am able to find in shops.

Maybe it’s a ploy by hotels. They know their pillows are comfy. They hook guests with their just-the-right-softness combined with their not-too-synthetic-feeling and then get them addicted with the never-getting-too-hotness, knowing fine well that when the poor guest goes home and tries to find a similar pillow they will fail. Thus resulting in a return trip to the hotel to try a find a label, or gleam some information on the origin of the pillow, or just to get a good nights sleep.

Maybe i need to sell my flat and move into a hotel …. or maybe I just need to take a bigger bag with me the next time I go. One big enough to fit a pillow or 2…..