Quoted in "40 Percent of Adults Still Sleep with a Stuffed Animal. Here’s Why/Finding comfort in an inanimate object isn’t just for kids" (sleep.com).
My question: If you're not sleeping with a stuffed animal, is your pillow really a deeply disguised stuffed animal for you?
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"My question: If you're not sleeping with a stuffed animal, is your pillow really a deeply disguised stuffed animal for you? "
No.
And people- grown adults- who I see boarding planes with their pillow make me cringe. I suspect they have a cut of their 'bankey' in their back pocket as well.
Not totally safe for work...In Japan they call the human dolls favored by lonely men "Dutch Wives." AFAIK they aren't rare, but the men who have them are considered nerds (otaku).
https://www.amsterdo.com/a-dutch-wife-never-cheats/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3661804/Married-Japanese-man-claims-finally-love-sex-doll.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
My question: If you're not sleeping with a stuffed animal, is your pillow really a deeply disguised stuffed animal for you?
It keeps my neck from hurting in the morning when I wake up.
When I travel I use different pillows, but I arrange them to be the same shape.
I believe it is the utility that is the source of attachment.
There's an actual Doberman on my bed.
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"It keeps my neck from hurting in the morning when I wake up."
I don't mean the pillow under your head. I mean the other pillow, the one you put against your chest and drape your arm around or some such thing.
"There's an actual Doberman on my bed."
Yes, but is he playing the role of your erstwhile stuffed animal.
By the same token, many of us have a full-size adult human being in bed with us, but that person may be a deeply disguised stuffed animal.
I don't mean the pillow under your head. I mean the other pillow, the one you put against your chest and drape your arm around or some such thing.
I have used a second pillow to prop my upper leg when lying on my side, was recommended by a doctor when I was dealing with sciatica from a ruptured disc. Not sure that is the same as a stuffed animal.
I like a long fluffy pillow to hold my elbow up. Does that make me a misogynist?
There's a dog in our bed as well. Well, not at the beginning of the night. But she comes in at some point. It usually doesn't even wake me up now.
Sometimes a pillow is just a pillow
— Sigmund Freud
I’m genuinely shocked that 40% of adults sleep with a stuffed animal. Last time I saw an adult with a stuffed animal it was really a “Dutch husband”. Is this a generational thing? I sleep with two pillows stacked or I throw one on the floor and fold the remaining pillow in half. Until now I thought that was perfectly normal. Am I an anomaly?
Even the women I know with ten pillows on their bed move most of them when it’s time to sleep.
Ann Althouse said...
"It keeps my neck from hurting in the morning when I wake up."
I don't mean the pillow under your head. I mean the other pillow, the one you put against your chest and drape your arm around or some such thing.
I am a back sleeper. I cannot sleep on my side for more than 30 minutes because of the gap between my shoulder width and waste width. I can lay on my side if I have a large pillow in my armpit that takes pressure off my shoulder and a larger pillow to hold up my head.
My father was just in the hospital and spent 9 days in a bed. They had to put pillows in awkward and normal places to keep him comfortable.
I think the attachment is to comfort in most of these cases personally.
There may be something to how the object smells that you sleep with though too.
There was a period when I was young I had a cat that slept wrapped around my head. All of the cats I have had have been adopted strays.
Neurologically I don't think there will be much difference between a pet sleeping with you and a stuffed animal.
I frequently hold a second pillow between my knees, but that's too keep my hips from hurting. I do not cuddle a pillow.
I do have a dog. She's not a "comfort animal" - 100% with our host on that one - but she is a living being who, in her way, gives me affection, and I in my way, which includes laying a hand on her at times in the night and echoing her relaxed sighs, return it.
I also have a husband. Him, I cuddle.
Ann Althouse said...
"It keeps my neck from hurting in the morning when I wake up."
I don't mean the pillow under your head. I mean the other pillow, the one you put against your chest and drape your arm around or some such thing.
I have the 2nd pillow for a weight--I've tried the weighted blankets and they're a bit much, but a solid heavy pillow on my chest keeps my core warm and helps me sleep better. Psychologically, maybe it is my mom. I'm not too concerned about deeper meanings.
I'm in the other 40% who have live animals sleeping in my bed, usually one or two cats and a beagle who wants between the little lady and I.
Just for informational purposes, where can I get this David Bowie doll they speak of?
The Meade Doll.
When I used to sleep on my side, at least when I was alone in that bed, I used a blanket or pillow as a means to keep the top arm elevated- it was just more comfortable for my shoulder joint.
Better to get a stuffed dog than a real one if you have a Jesus complex.
I have a stuffed Garfield out in my figure painting studio, next to a picture of my parents. In my writing and work area, I have both a WB Tazmanian Devil and a Cthulhu plastic coin bank watching over things.
Not to mention 3 cats who strive to keep me from getting anything done. They also function as alarm clocks, letting me know when I need to get up at 2 am to write and work out(and let them loose). They don't try to wake my wife up; somehow they know that she is not a morning person.
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Sometimes I sleep with a pool noodle, wrapping my legs around it and dreaming I'm climbing a beanstock. Fee fi fo fum.
For the best nights sleep in the whole wide world...
When I used to travel a lot my wife would sometimes slip a small stuffed cat that looked like my giant B&W Maine Coon (Butch) into my suitcase, and I'd put him on the night stand in the hotel. I haven't cuddled with a stuffed animal since the years between toddlerhood and kindergarten.
No
Teh Thin White Duke?
For those of you who sleep with a pillow between your knees to align your spine and help your back, this is SO MUCH better. Totally worth it (this is just an example - there are many options but you get the general idea). And don't forget to use the Althouse Amazon portal! https://www.amazon.com/ComfiLife-Orthopedic-Pillow-Sciatica-Pregnancy/dp/B01ARJ7SBM/ref=sr_1_9?crid=38S189TJBZJWX&keywords=knee+pillow&qid=1661958322&sprefix=knee+pillow%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-9
Well, I'll see your dog and raise you another dog - and a cat too, some of the time. There's no room for stuffed animals.
I am with Steve above. 40% of adults do this? I do not believe that. Maybe 40% of some category of adult- like 40% of adults who self describe as a teen age adolescent female might do it? That I would believe.
"My question: If you're not sleeping with a stuffed animal, is your pillow really a deeply disguised stuffed animal for you?"
Or is your stuffed animal a deeply disguised pillow? Or are both of them substitutes for companionship?
The doberman is to protect him from crazed feminists who would like to kill him in his sleep.
I do "have a full-size adult human being in bed with" me. But she feels so much nicer than a stuffed animal.
Every night I rub my hand up and down her to remind myself how lucky I am.
I do "have a full-size adult human being in bed with" me. But she feels so much nicer than a stuffed animal.
Every night I rub my hand up and down her to remind myself how lucky I am.
A stuffed animal! That's my husband after dinner!
Sorry, this is a fake statistic. 40%? No way.
Unless your stuffed animals fart aDoberman is not a substitute. Personally, I enjoy having small predatory mammals doing whatever they want to me in my sleep, and cats don’t fart (much).
"There was a period when I was young I had a cat that slept wrapped around my head. All of the cats I have had have been adopted strays. Neurologically I don't think there will be much difference between a pet sleeping with you and a stuffed animal."
If you don't want it on top of your face, the stuffed animal will not be on your face.
Background: I had a cat, long ago, and I got it for my sons, but it wanted to sleep with me, and it liked to be right on top of my face. A long-haired cat...
"Just for informational purposes, where can I get this David Bowie doll they speak of?"
I think they're sold out, but you can see a nice picture of the item here.
This was the second post of the morning in which 40% showed up, and in both cases, it seemed less like real information and more like fanciful invention.
Scott Adams likes to talk about 25% (as the percentage that's always wrong), but I should start a similar thing about 40% (as the percentage that gets made up when you suddenly need a percentage).
I'll help the percentage and admit I sleep with stuffed animals. One pig goes under my neck, another pig props my arm. Each is the perfect shape and size for its task.
I also have stuffed avocado pillows as lumbar support in my bedroom recliner. They're functional and cute.
All the living room sofa pillows are quite square and presentable. Not an animal in sight.
40%?!?!?!
Dogs sleeping on the bed, or cats sleeping on their humans in a bed, is much mere pleasant and popular now that effective anti-flea meds and dewormers are available.
Perhaps using a pillow surrogate for a sex doll will become more acceptable as the pathologic aspects of such things are reduced, as well. Although I don't see how.
I used to sleep with a furry horsehead modeled, of course, on the one in "The Godfather".
Ann Althouse said...
"There was a period when I was young I had a cat that slept wrapped around my head. All of the cats I have had have been adopted strays. Neurologically I don't think there will be much difference between a pet sleeping with you and a stuffed animal."
If you don't want it on top of your face, the stuffed animal will not be on your face.
This is truth.
Although I should modify my previous statement.
Some people will not see much difference Neurologically between a pet and a stuffed animal.
Other people will not see much difference neurologically between a stuffed animal and a pillow.
I am one of the latter.
Are full size Brian Stelter dolls available?
Asking for gadfly.
I prefer the "My Pillow" that gives long lasting heavenly comfort using their patent pending Jesus Tears filling. Plus, ten dollars from every My Pillow sold is donated to the Roger Stone Foundation
Answer: No.
The cat will sleep at the foot of the bed, though.
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