There are almost countless sleeping positions — stomach, back, log, starfish, free fall and more.
 
But the truth is, no one really has one. We might like to think of ourselves as side sleepers or back sleepers, but a more accurate descriptor, for all of us, is all-over-the-place sleepers.
 
We found this out after doing a camera study on sleeping positions during development for the original Casper pillow. The positions most people fall asleep in are different than the ones they end up in, and the positions they do end up in are the goofy types that they never recall.

Having “a sleeping position” mostly refers to how we prefer to fall asleep. When we asked participants during the study about how they slept, they usually identified a clear type, like side or stomach.
 
But we saw that didn’t hold up. People would fall asleep on their stomach and then roll over onto their side, grab a pillow and put it between their knees.
 
For example, 70% of participants slept on their side at some point during the night, no matter what position or positions they had identified.
 
The reality is that sleeping is more activity than rest.

 
The way you sleep has everything to do with what pillow you feel most comfortable using. The catch is that we typically sleep in many positions each night. This means the “best” pillow on the market should work well for all sleeping positions.