# Short introduction to the use of sewing machines/Sewing labs/Dreamo/Dreamo origin - The design of a new pillow paradigm

Dreamo: The pillow of your dreams

## Origin

Currently, many pillow designs use a horizontal-rectangular shape, that shape is used because the pillow is designed for mass production, with the same amount of filling material creating pressure inside the pillow in order to maintain it's shape uniform.
This project was initially a pillow for side sleepers, but when designing the pillow was noticed that when two pillows are put together, one close the head and the other in the neck area... It was noticed that with the horizontal-rectangular shape (vertical full body support instead of head only horizontal support) the pillows support area was expanded from the head only to the following areas:
* Whole head,
* Neck
* Upper spine,
* Back
* And buttocks.
It was also noticed that vertical length designed pillows not only give cushion or support to these areas, they also released the pressure or tension towards the head and neck, the pressure is reduced, also the tension in the neck and upper spine is reduced since they are not forced to be floating in the air, this allows the whole body rest while at the same time maintaining an linear and light inclination of the uppers side of the body (head and back), allowing the blood flow to the legs while at the same time eliminates the tension in the neck and head.
The initial version was the half body version, that version is in the research section, in this book we will focus on the full head, neck and upper spine version of the pillow.
For it's design only need to make a few measures, mark the areas to cut in the fabric, cut the pieces, sew the 4 pieces together, fill the pillow and sew the last segment.

### Traditional pillows - A not so convenient pillow paradigm

It was noticed design mistakes in current pillow design, The horizontal-rectangular (squared) shape or design, they have the following problems:
1.- The horizontal-rectangular design is covering areas where we do not sleep (horizontal), this is, the sides of the pillow, instead of using this material to cover areas such as the neck and upper spine, the extra unused material could be used instead to support and cushion these other areas. Reducing the misalignment excessive pressure towards the neck and head.
2.- The horizontal-rectangular design keeps the head in the center of the pillow, ignoring the user's head, neck and upper spine, those pillows does not cushion the upper spine and does not align the head and neck, this creates a misalignment in the head, neck and spine.
3.- The horizontal-rectangular design focuses in using filling material for the cushion of the head only, but this increases the pressure in that area of the head, while is true that those pillows try to giving cushion to the head that cushions comes with adding all the pressure to the crown or sides of the head, therefore the distribution of cushion for the neck and shoulders is awkward due the fact that the pillows rectangular shape takes care only of the pillow rectangular shape ignoring completely the three dimensional anatomy of the person that uses it. Dreamo objective is to redistribute all the pressure towards the sides of the pillow while the head is received and supported by the pillow and at the same time the pressure in the user head is reduced and the neck support and upper back is improved and balance and allign the user neck, and body.
4.- In order to keep its shape, rectangular pillows uses the infill and materials that maintain its pressure towards the surface in order to maintain its shape, this results in a bulky center of the pillow and that pressure is pushed against the head of their users.
The problem when the horizontal-rectangular are designed pillows to keep their shape by the fact of being bulky in the center is that these pillows maintain a pressure of the material towards the pillow surface, this will be also a pressure toward the user head. The user also have an inner pressure towards it's own head surface, this will be added to the weight of it's head towards the pillow that also has it's own pressure towards it's surface. Therefore, we will have two objects with pressure towards their surfaces (pillow and user head and body), bot already with tension toward their surface.
The pillow surface is the area were the tension or pressure is supposed to be reduced and the material should not be pushing against its user. The pillow infill or material should be able to move towards the sides in order to reduce the pressure in the pillow center pressure and soften it's surface giving a better reception to the user head, neck and body.
5.- In the horizontal-rectangular most of the pillow material or volume is distributed to the sides, where we do not sleep, it becomes unused material.
6.- There is not a person or teller measuring the size or length or weight of the user body or head, therefore, the pillow produced is not make to cover the user needs, instead of that the pillows are mass produced.

### Reasons for the mass production of horizontal-rectangular designs

The horizontal-rectangular mass produced designs of one size or 3 sizes of pillows allow companies to easily cut parts and produce pillows, even if the purpose of the pillow itself is defeated, could be convenient to the manufacturers due for the following reasons:
* The rectangular design eliminates the use of a tailor or a person that takes the measurement of the user, ignoring completely the user anatomy, the user weight, the user body shape.. rectangular pillows are mass produced to be sold ignoring the users comfort.
* Ignoring users anatomy or head and body form of the user, eliminates the need of hire tailors to get the measures of the users, and the need for pillow part with specific lengths, is easier for companies to mass-produce one or 3 pillows sizes than million of pillows combinations and measures for each of the customers.
* The materials and design for rectangular pillows are used in a form that focus in uniforming the pillows shape, eliminating workforce (tellers), the user measures, anatomy and comfort.
* Current pillow design uses less external fabric material than bigger pillows that covers users body areas, giving the illusion of being big while most of the pillow's area is unused, except for the users head and part of the neck. Using less material and fewer parts (One part in the cases of the pillows that not use a central line to allow pillow expansion) and less thread to hold the parts. The excess of material could be repurposed to cover the area of the neck and upper spine, and the excess of filling material and pressure could be used in other pillows.
* Rectangular mass produced pillows that ignore the measure of the users in exchange for a lower price defeats their own purpose that is to create users maximum comfort, exchanging it for a design that could be in many cases uncomfortable and even create unnecessary pressure or misalignment in the users head or body.

### Disadvantages of using mass produced pillows

Some of the disadvantages of using mass produced pillows are the following:
* Currently manufactures do not allow users to choose materials, colors, sources as they desire.
* Producers cannot offer personalized options and the users do not have options to choose.
* Users and designers are not able to select the materials for each component of the pillow, in designer pillows we are not given the option to select what materials we want on the pillows.
The rectangular mass produced pillow not just goes against it's own purpose, it sacrifices the comfort and rest of user during the time the owners use these pillows, sometimes during the whole time of the users resting time, and the rest of all the generations and civilizations that uses them.
The benefit of using many pillows and noticing the benefits of using different pillows allow us to understand each pillow mistakes and get the best part of these pillows and integrate them in one single pillow design that:
* Is personalized to the user measures and size.
* Create an adequate cushion creating cushion according the user needs.
* Reduces pressure from the center of the user head and body redistributing it to the sides of the pillow.

## Dreamo paradigm

The convenience of switching to a new pillow design:
During the pillow production, the material used in The horizontal-rectangular design could be repurposed instead in the area each user sleeps, giving the pillows a more vertical orientation that is aligned with the users body, allowing the alignment of our head, our neck and upper back or spine, giving to the whole upper volume the correct alignment.
Ideally Dreamo pillows are made after taking the user measures, choosing the user materials, textures and colors and the level of pressure and height of the pillow.
Dreamo design could be mass produced giving us an in-between option, where 3 or 4 sizes could be mass produced with different levels of pressure, this pressure could also be measured in order to standardize them and giving the users the option of what pressure they desire in the pillows, the disadvantage is that some options for the users could be lost (colors, materials, etc).

### Areas supported

Dreamo pillows cover the following complete areas:
* Head,
* Neck
* Upper spine,
* In the half body version also cover the back and buttocks (experimental).
Releasing and dispersing the pressure received by the pillow and bed towards the pillow and bed sides instead of towards our own head.
Many users do not need a pillow that keeps is shape, instead of that, need a pillows that serves it's purpose, being comfortable and be able to modify it's shape or infill distribution when are used, changing its internal distribution while is used.
A teller should measure the head, neck and upper spine of the user in order to create a pillow that not just receive and cushion the head of the user, but also receive it with the right amount of pressure, releasing the unneccesary pressure towards the sides, and at the same time, keeps alligned the head, neck and upper spine of the user.
The Dreamo pillows intends to correct all this mistakes by traditional and mass produced designs used by thousand of years:
* Dreamo uses a design that considers the anatomy of the human body: Head, neck, upper spine, back and buttocks, the three dimensional curves of the bones and muscles, allowing the cushion distribute toward the sides in the areas that more pressure receive, releases both, muscle and bone pressure, and also pillow pressure in the contacted areas.
* Add an intermediate border or frame between the top surface and bottom surface of the pillow, this allows the filling material to expand towards the sides when necessary instead of keeping pushing them towards the center of the pillow.
* Dreamo design allows to change its shape according the users weight or preference at any time, using each material and part to focus on the user comfort allowing the pillow form to be changed freely by the user at any moment of the day or night.
* We have freedom to select the pillow materials for each component of the pillow, this will allow us to chose the quality, softness, purity, healthy and safe materials.

### Materials

The material choose for Dreamo are 100 % organic and naturals, some of the are the following:
* 100 % Kapok,
* 100 % cotton,
* 100 % wool,
* Dawn feathers (experimental).

## See also

* Dreamo
* Short introduction to the use of sewing machines/Sewing labs/Dreamo/Research and development