well, i tried no pillow last night. it was a bit odd, but not painful
for my neck. in the morning, at first I thought my T was the same as
usual (high-pitched ringing/hiss mostly in right ear). but when I got up
and around, it was worse than usual although not awful.
i did have some unusual releases in my neck when I moved my neck around
in the a.m. - could sense or hear them popping in my right ear!

interesting experiment. i'll try it again. but am still curious about
the actual crawl you describe and the general aspect of sleeping on
one's stomach.

tx.

An authentic chiropractic pillow is NO pillow.  Once you take the
pillow away, you immediately allow your body to flip over at will.
Thus you find yourself sometimes sleeping on back and sometimes on
your breast.  But then again who says sleeping must be on one's back?
Look at how the baby sleep; they sometimes sleep on their backs and
sometimes on their tommies.

Throughout the entire evening, your body will be doing its own
chiropractic by flipping over with all sorts of postures which you
think are awkward but the body simply does what it wants to do, and it
does so in order to unlock some positions which you might have
unconsciously locked up due to careless motions such as seating in
front of a pc with an incorrect head position over a prolonged period.

By taking away your pillow and allowing your body to flip-frog, you
stand a good chance of relaxing a compressed nerve in your spine.  A
compressed nerve in the spine is one of the causes of tinnitus.
Actually quite a few people get their tinnitus through a compressed
nerve in the spine.  But they are not aware of this.  By sleeping
without a pillow, your body makes an effort to un-compress this nerve
that has been compressed without your realizing it.  When you visit an
inexperienced ENT or neurologist for your tinnitus, their focuses are
on your cochlea and your nerve, and the spine is a bit too far away
from their concern. Sleeping without a pillow might just save you a
world of grief.

FP