I went pillowless this weekend .....

Have you ever tried it, or even given it a thought?!
Victoria Butenko, in her book on eating raw, mentions how she and her family have been sleeping on hard surfaces without pillows ever since their Pacific Trail hike, and have found it beneficial to their health. So, finding myself sleeping on a fairly hard flat sofa this past weekend while visiting on the West Coast (of Africa) I decided to discard the pillow and sleep on my back. Sleeping on the back is mostly a cosmetic consideration yet having found myself so very easily drifting off to sleep in the corpse pose on a hard floor without a pillow at the end of an hour of Yoga I figured that that position would be the best one to start with sans pillow.
I drifted off to sleep very quickly and awoke in the early morning without having changed position once in the night. Could just have been that I had driven 11 hours to Vredenburg that day. However, I felt refreshed and had none of the usual cricks from sleeping in a strange bed with a different pillow. In fact, I was quite excited at this new experience and have not needed to use a pillow since.
Next challenge........ to sleep on the hard floor. The thought of bugs crawling over me in the night keeps me from attempting this although I guess the solution is just to discard the mattress and sleep on the bed base. We shall see.