Lull by hulls

What's more cozy than this? The lights are lowered, you've just donned some snuggly PJs, or slipped into your silky peach-fuzzed bareness, and are crawling beneath the sheets of your bed. The soft fabric falls gently, like a whisper upon your skin, and settles. Your heavy burdened head, swimming with thoughts of un-finished to-do's and the dizzying minutia of your day, nuzzles deep into the warm hug of a nook in your pillow, the channel that you've created with your palm to fit your head just-right. It's gentle and smooth against your tender cheek yet supportive and firm, enough to keep all eight pounds of your skull aloft throughout the entire night, but forgiving enough for your oh-so-fragile neck to be cradled safely in its friendly curvature. You breathe slowly and deeply, taking in the soothing scents of lavender, chamomile, rose, catnip (yes its true). And a familiar face grows larger in your lidded vision-scape, the face of Dreamland coming to take you, enclosing you in his sweet embrace like a warm womb, to a healing REM state.

But what if you're not sleeping on the right pillow? What if your pillow for all intents and purposes stinks? Getting to this place of sleep nirvana is a lot more difficult when your vessel to sleepy time is a lumpy, flattened slab of synthetic fluff? Sleeping on a pillow such as this can leave you restless, grumpy, and with a sizable kink in your neck the following morning. I know. I, too, have once or twice chosen the wrong pillow to bear the burden of my weary brain at night. After weeks of fitful sleep, tossing and turning, and waking with painful aches in my neck and shoulders which developed into an almost constant head-ache at the base of my skull that didn't go away with massage or ibuprofen, I turned to the internet as my guide. A day spent squinting, pointing, and clicking in search of the holy grail of pillows came up bountiful.

The wonder pillow I speak of in the begininning of this veritable info-mercial exists, my friend, and is made by The Pillow Company . Their Millet Hull night pillow is a godsend. Filled with organic, sustainable, and ethically harvested millet hulls, it's perfectly hip for those of us who choose to shop "green." And it's healthy. As opposed to other pillows on the market (I won't name names) your mind can be at ease knowing that you're not inhaling harsh synthetic chemicals from flame-retardent factory-produced products. And no ducks or geese were harmed or discomforted in the making. Add some organic aromatherapy herbs, such as a "dream pillow" mix (I got mine at Limbo Inc. in SE Portland) inside the zippered cover, and slip on a high thread-count organic cotton case, and you can surely rest easy the next time you lie down for a long snooze.