Do you use a bolster when u SLEEP?

Well if I knew what a bolster was I could answer your question. I sometimes sleep with a long pillow that is called a body pillow. Could this be what you are talking about?

OMG.. i need bolster...i have using since i was a little kid. Can't sleep without it!

I have all kinds of pillows available, but use just one right now, fairly soft, under my head. Occasionally I will sleep on my left side and put another pillow between my knees as that is good for spinal alignment. I do not have a bolster, but one would be good if I slept on my back, to put under my knees. Again that is for spinal health. So the verdict right now is one bed, one blanket, one pillow, and a fan. A fan is pretty much an essential for me to keep the air moving. It covers up incidental sound and helps me sleep soundly. I do sleep every night, I try to get at least seven hours.

I just go to sleep. I have three pillows, one large and padded, two smaller and softer. I could easily sleep without them and a bed lol All I really need is a space long enough and I go straight away or near has. (It's just easy to do this for me) ~Joey Kudos lordy!

I have a twin bed, 2 pillows & some kind of cover (right now only a sheet.) I need that much to sleep. I also tend to have 3 or 6 cats in bed with me. I'm pretty sure they don't help much.

On a warm day I can go sit in a chair and fall asleep there, in the house I will sleep in my bed(as long as my hubby is here) and I need 2 pillows and a blanket. Now that my hubby is not here I am sleeping on the couch and I need my 2 pillows and also a blanket but that is only for sleeping at night. If I have a nap during the day I will only need the pillows on the couch. My hubby uses 3 pillows sort of and a blanket that he has stolen from me. Normally in the morning 2 of his pillows are on the floor and he is using mine which he just kinda pushes me over until he can put his 3rd pillow on my two. LOL that is all we use though nothing more. If I had to I could go without it all and use my arm or a jacket as a pillow.

we had a bolster when we got married at first 46 years this year ( and I noticed that the are becoming popular again here in Scotland) , I have six duck feather and down pillows on our bed but two are only for look to make my bed nice , We both have two pillows each and I get a good sleep with that , I use to go to sleep when I wash watching afternoon TV but I am too busy on My Lot to go to sleep now lol xx

What's a bolster? I would love to go to sleep but my husband has been sick all week, very sick, and I have been on the go constantly. I am close to crashing (I have fibromyalgia so overdrive is not something I should be doing). I've got two spoiled brat kids who not only need to do everything they've been invited to do, they will not help out around the house and insist on US helping them with ridiculous little things. I am not sleeping well because DH is not sleeping well, and I think I am now at the point of being overtired. To answer your question, however, my husband and I both have two pillows on our bed, a bed sheet and a comforter. We have an overhead fan which we have used on the hotter nights because the air conditioning doesn't reach the top level too well, plus DH is sweating something awful with this virus he has. I was sweating last night myself and moved to the couch for awhile. When all this cr*p isn't going on I sleep well. My bolster, so to speak, is a sleeping pill. Necessary because of my fibromyalgia (chronic pain and ringing in the ears to name two symptoms that keep me awake). If I crash and burn, it better be after my husband is healthy again because this household obviously cannot run without me. We don't know what is wrong with him, possibly West Nile Virus, but he has shown some signs of improvement, but then relapses into headaches and fever. He can't sleep because of it. His tossing and turning isn't helping my sleep any. Okay, I've rambled on enough, but this is what is going on in my life right now and your topic relates well to it.

I need my ruddy husband!! That's what I need and I haven't got him..he is three thousand odd friggin' miles away and it is driving me nuts, you think I can sleep?

In fact, the bolster is the only necessity for me. It doubles as a pillow. It's easy to imagine how I manage with one bolster. Without the bolster, I need two pillows. One for the head, one to cover the face if there is a need or it becomes a substitute as a blanket. I do not use blankets for I kicked it away most of the time. In fact, I do not need the bed, the floor is fine, even the sofa.

Quite an interesting topic! Let's see, I use a lovely pure feather/down duvet, two pillows and my hubby. I just can't seem to sleep if he's not in the bed with me :) Guess the second pillow would count as the bolster though. A proper bolster just wouldn't work for me.

oh..i WISH i had a feather bolster. my grandmother used to have one.feather bolster,pillows and quilt.i'd plop down in that when i was a kid and you'd have to pry me from it :)=)

I enjoy my sleep, I probably sleep more than anyone in our household. I also take medication which makes me drowsy so sleep is sometimes a way through. As for bolsters and such my head gear (pardon the pun) is a pillow and a large cushion, the kind you would see on a sofa. The cushion I use to prop up my head between shoulders and head because I also get neck pains quite often (from stress hence the medication). My head and neck just sink into the cushion and I float away into my slumber zone. I once tried one of those foam supports which was a complete waste of money, it was wedge shaped, flat on one side and bumpy on the other. Very uncomfortable indeed which made me choose the cushion. :)

I have a whole ton of things on my bed! I have a Tempur foam pillow for my head (the kind which conforms to your head shape), a quilt, a baby blanket, a down pillow, a polyfill pillow, a mushroom plushie, a star beanie and a huge elephant beanie. My feet get cold during the night so the quilt's essential, but Singapore nights are quite warm so I use the baby blanket for the rest of my body. The extra pillows are for random grabbing, throwing, pummelling, whatever I feel like doing when I'm trying to sleep, and the toys are just for hugging when I need small, soft things.

Hello Lordwarwizard, The only time I use a bolster is in restorative Yoga poses. We have a combination of 6 down & regular pillows. But, Hubby & I each only sleep with one. The others just get in the way. I used to have a nice memory foam pillow -- but the dogs mistook it for a dog toy, and tore it to pieces. Which is a bummer! That was a great pillow for the neck & shoulders. The only other, special pillow that I use is a leg pillow between my knees, to help with spinal alignment, as I sleep on my side. I would think that a bolster would end up like our extra four pillows -- tossed on the floor. Here in the USA, "body pillows" are the new rage. It's a take on the old style bolster, but they are three or four feet long, and aren't as firm as the old style bolsters.

I don't use a bolster....those things are so big and make me feel to crowded.I can't stand having anything touching my back while I'm sleeping and I need to have room to move my legs. So the bolster would end up on the floor eventually.....so why even bother with it to begin with.

MY lord, I have to scroll down just to see what bolster was. I have never heard of such a thi9ng. Maybe us Americans are sheltered from that word. Who knows. Anyways i use a pillow,a bed and a blankie. But i have to have my own because i don't share :P:P

No...I hug my mini pillow to sleep... I buy my bolster so that i can utilise the bolster case which come together as a set with bedsheet and pillow. Bolster serve no purpose. My bed is so small so i normally just accidentally kick bolster off from the bed to the floor and i gotta pick it up the next morning.

I have a bolster, but i never use it to sleep. It's just a deco on my bed. I hug my baby pillow everynight and I found myself getting asleep faster with it.

I'm not quite sure what a "bolster" is but I use 3 pillows when I sleep. One is pretty much to soften the headboard and the other two to keep me from a stiff neck. I have fused vertabrae in my neck and need the extra height for comfort. Hmm..yes unless brutally hot there's always at least a sheet over me. And of course a nice pillowtop mattress to sleep on. Every day, maybe even a nap too :) I like my sleep.