Ostrich Pillow: Some of these designs will make you want to bury your head. Photo / Supplied
Ostrich Pillow: Some of these designs will make you want to bury your head. Photo / Supplied
In the quest for sleep at 35,000ft, fashion is the first victim.
On a twelve hour flight, via eight different time zones, you don't have the luxury of being self-aware. This is just as well, for there are some truly wild and wacky solutions to the travel pillow.
Duty freeshops are full of bizarre and twisted plane accessories to make your flight more comfortable. Though admittedly, most look more 50 Shades of Grey than forty winks.
Be prepared to swallow your pride along with your temazepam, as we look for the most unusually comofortable travel accessories on the market.
This foldable pillow is a part fleece scarf, part neck brace – but it's more comfortable than it looks.
The design is set to support your neck and stop you lolling to sleep onto the shoulder of the passenger next to you.
Wowov Inflatable Travel Pillow. Photo / Supplied
Wowov Inflatable Travel Pillow
It's the sort of space-aged item you wish had come with clearer instructions. Once you've worked out which hole is supposed to fit what, you'll be sound asleep.
You can wearing the looping scarf design while you travel through the airport. Prop up on it during the seemingly-infinite layover. Then scrunch it up into a pillow on which to catch some infinite zzzzzzz's.
Andyer Portable footrest. Photo / Supplied
Andyer Portable footrest
No it's not an eye-mask for giants. This nifty piece of nylon and elastic is supposed to act as a "foot hammock."
Pray the passenger in front is either extremely tolerant, or a very deep sleeper because it takes some mid-flight construction.
Dangle it from the tray-table in front, kick back, and relax!
Ostrich Pillow. Photo/Supplied
Ostrich Pillow
Being seen in this, uh, pillow-hat will make you want to bury your head in the sand. However, there is very little chance of you being recognised while wearing it.
The Ostrich pillow was originally put into production as a project on the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. It may not be a thing of beauty but it has a sufficient fan base of flyers to have got it off the ground.
If you see someone with one of these on your plane, don't panic! This life-vest like pillow is not a sign to follow women and children first to the rafts.
It's also not worn how would imagine.
It is, in fact, a personal theatre for your iPad.
Stick your arms through the sides and perch your head on top – and you're away to stream Netflix to your heart's content.
