Sometimes when I lay my head down on the pillow at night, I feel like I’m in an old-time Kate Hepburn movie where she holds a glass up against a wall to listen to what’s going on next door.  Only.. I really don’t want to listen in on the neighbors’ late-night conversation or the car playing music outside.  It seems that the vibrations in the floor or walls are being transmitted directly through the structure of the building, up into the bed, through the depths of the pillow and into my poor ear that only wants to keep dreaming.

Why not make a sound-isolating pillow?  A pillow made of some really cool, decoupling foam.  I see it as a lot of little chunky foam squares.  Maybe also the pillow emits some white noise of its own too, like a seashell.