Dream science win for Sara

From sweet dreams to the stuff of nightmares — it’s not just the bed bugs you have to worry about before tonight’s bedtime story.

Your pillow is hosting a range of microscopic bacterial and fungal nasties which could be harmful to health.

And the older the pillow, the more the bacteria levels increase, to the point where, within just two years, one third of the mass of your pillow is of dead skin cells, bugs, and dead dust mites and their droppings.