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IF you find U-shaped travel pillows really uncomfortable, there’s a chance you’ve been wearing it all wrong.

They’re designed to support your neck and stop your head from bobbing side to side when you snooze – but only if you wear it the right way up.

Travel pillows should actually be worn upside down
Travel pillows should actually be worn upside down

As it happens, most people have probably been using it in the wrong way – by draping it across their neck.

But in fact, it should be facing the other way according to Dr Michael Breus – or The Sleep Doctor as he’s known to US television audiences – one of the world’s leading sleep experts and a pro when it comes to sleeping in transit.

Dr Breus 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.”

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

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If you haven’t forked out for one of those pillows, you’ll still be able to get a good night’s kip though – so long as you bag the window seat.

Dr Breus said: “Get a window seat, and you can roll up a jacket or bring a pillow and prop it up to rest your head.

“[Also], stay as close to — but not in — the exit row as you can be.

“The reason you want to be close to the exit row is because you’re closer to the centre of the fuselage and you’re going to feel the least amount of turbulence there.”

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