Pillow snatcher

My cat Emerson likes to sleep on pillows. Makes sense I suppose. People like pillows. Pillows are comfortable. Every night my cat sleeps on the back of the chair until I go to bed, then he follows me to bed and assumes his position on the pillow next to the pillow I sleep on. It's very cute really. He sleeps there all night - not moving until I get up usually and every time I wake up, he is curled up into varying positions of cuteness. Sometimes I will wake up and his paws are stretched over onto my pillow. Sometimes he will "paw" me in the head until I pet him. Annoying - but an improvement over what he used to do (flat out attack me and bite me).

He's a left side of the bed only cat. I'm a switch sides of the bed person, so we are having a disagreement. I'm tired of sleeping on the right. I'd like a turn on the left side please, or maybe the middle, or perhaps diagonal, but with my head on the left side. I tried to trade with him. I even gave him the pillow he was sleeping on, in case he could tell the difference between the two identical pillows. But no, he just wanted "his" side of the bed. He stood there on the pillow, right next to my head, until I got annoyed and moved over. Then he laid down and assumed his position of cuteness. The thing is, the cat always gets his way.

Yesterday I wasn't feeling that good - had a headache, thought I would lay down on the couch. I went and got a pillow and then thought, you know, I should pee, because I don't want to get comfortable and then realize I have to pee. Less than a minute later, I returned to the couch to find this...look at him, he looks like he is already asleep. And you know he was thinking, "yeah, you want to try to take my side of the bed again...."