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I fold my pillow in half every night
Folding a pillow roughly doubles its height and firms it considerably. Doing it automatically, every night, is a precise measurement: your pillow is somewhere near half the loft you actually need. That is not a small error — a 3-inch pillow folded is a rough 6-inch pillow, and the fact that the fold feels better tells you your target is far above where you are.
What the pillow has to do
- loft in measured range — Pillow loft within the range your own measurement implies. This is first for every constraint in this cluster, because no surface is soft enough to rescue a pillow your head has already flattened.
How people ask this
- Why do I fold my pillow
- Folding pillow in half neck
- I have to double my pillow over to be comfortable
The pillows indexed here
Work out your own loft first → Loft comes before everything else on this list.