Gross

I am quite grossed out.

"The typical pillow contains more than a million fungal spores, researchers found. That's several thousand spores for every little gram of material."

Wonderful. There's more.

"We know that pillows are inhabited by the house dust mite which eats fungi, and one theory is that the fungi are in turn using the house dust mites' feces as a major source of nitrogen and nutrition (along with human skin scales)," says study leader Ashley Woodcock at the University of Manchester. "There could therefore be a 'miniature ecosystem' at work inside our pillows."

It's terrible, the way the mind plays on your fears. The more you know, the more you fear. And I find that the older I get, the more weird habits I develope.


Oh, to be a child again!