You’ve been wearing your travel pillow WRONG – the right way is a game-changer

WHILE it may seem self-explanatory, you have probably been wearing your travel pillow the wrong way during your flight.

A man on TikTok has explained how everyone has actually been wearing it backward.

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TikTok user Sidneyraz, often posts hacks and tricks he “wishes he knew before his 30s”.

In the video, he put the travel pillow on his neck – but flipped it around.

He said: “Travel pillows go in front. I’m so comfy [and] you can actually sleep on a flight.”

TikTok users were shocked to find they had been using it wrong the whole time, putting the main part of the pillow behind them instead of in front to support the chin.

Many have called it a game-changer to sleeping during a flight – one person said: “No way. My life has been a lie all along.

A TikTok user joked: “Wish I’d known this on my 10 hour flight.”

Many agreed: “I never understood why I found them uncomfy, but I was doing it wrong this whole time.”

Lots of people said they blamed the adverts, which always showed the travel pillow behind the neck, not in front.

Others who said they already did this said they often got weird looks from other passengers.

Back in 2019, Dr Micheal Breus – know as The Sleep Doctor in the US – also said this was the correct way.

He told News.com.au: “And one thing I tell my clients is that if you have a U-shaped neck pillow, turn it around so the bottom of the U is under your chin.”

“That’s because your head tends to bob which will wake you up, and by rotating the pillow it stops your head from bobbing.”

Here are some of the best travel pillows which you can buy right now.

And travellers praised a 2-in-1 item for flights which is both a blanket and a pillow.

Another travel essential that passengers are using wrong is the flight sock – and it all depends on how long they are worn for.

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