This is the SleepScience 10" mattress. This memory foam mattress is what i have been sleeping on for the past 8 months. This blog i am starting is to log my experiances with memory foam and SleepScience, so i can help you decide if spending this much money on a mattress is worth it. To give you some of my background, I never heard of sleepscience till two days before i bought this "Sophie" mattress. I was introduced to the brand SleepScience from a friend of mine who told me he discovered the better alternative to tempurpedic. My friend is a little dramatic so i had to look into it myself. This is what happend from there, i kept a journal of all of my experiances so i could help my friends and family with an investment tis large.
Day 1: Tell my friend that im looking for a new bed, and he mentions SleepScience. I try to find them on the web, but i can not find a sleepscience website. I find articles about sleepscience and memory foam mattresses, memory foam pillows, and memory foem toppers. I read about 30 or so articles and discovered that memory foam (Visco Memory Foam) is the "new / best mattress material". I was not sold, but i was interested.
Day 2: I look a little more online and find nothing new, or too helpful. I call about 10 - 20 mattress stores and find 2 that carry the mattresses, or any SleepScience products. I found about 80% of the stores carried Tempurpedic. the two stores that carried SleepScience, also carried Tempurpedic. After talking to all of the store reps, i came to the understanding that memory foam mattresses are "unbelievable" and that i need to just try one.
Day 5: I go to local mattress shop that has tempurpedic mattressses, and do the real test... I LAID DOWN.. Actually at first i jumped in the air and tried to land on my back and i was surprised, it was a VERY ROUGH LANDING. little did i know that the soft part of the mattress is only about 3-6 inches thick, and after that it is prettyu firm. Once i rolled over on my back i experianced what all the talk was about. This mattress really just held my body VERY evenly. It is a weird thing to fell a soft and firm mattress at the same time. Its kind of like laying down on the smoothest sand bech with a nice sheet between you and the sand. THe mattress i was laying on was Tempurpedics Finest, i think it retailed for $4,700. I asked the store rep about SleepScience beds, he told me that they dont sell them because his owner is "Lazy", but that he saw them at a trade show in Las Vegas and he thought that SleepScience Mattresses felt better than the mattresses he had at that store ( loyal emplyee). Went home and slept on my mattress knowing what i was missing out on now. :(
Day 9: I decided that since i am sleeping for over 1/4 of my life that i should invest on a good mattress and i located the retailer that sold SleepScience mattresses. I started asking him about options and sizes, and of course prices. I was surpriised to hear that the best and biggest SleepScience mattress was $3,500 ($1,200) less than Tempurpedic, and acording to the store rep, it was better... I didnt have $3,500 to spend, but after 2 hours of talking to the store on the phone i decied to buy the Sophie 10" (2nd best) for $2,500. He hid the $300 shipping charge till the end (PUNK) but i still bought the mattress and a pillow for an additional $130. I'm EXCITED !!!!!!!
Day 24: My mattress arives !!!!!!! A HUGE SLEEPSCIENCS BOX. It took me about 30 min to set my bed up and remove my old one. I immediately laid down on it and was instantly happy. I think i was overly excited so i was expecting somethiung really crazy and different to happen, like the mattress puts me to sleep in 5 Sec. and obviously that did not happen, but i was still really stoked with my purchase. I was excited for the nite !!
Day25: AM I wake up to my alarm clock like normal. I just got a good nite sleep and i was happy about it. About 1/2 through my day is when i seriously noticed something AMAZING. My back feels better than it has in years and i am not nearly as tired as i usually am around 3pm. After a couple minutes i think to myself "could it be the mattress" DUhhh, YES IT WAS, its the only thing that has changed since yesterday and all the previous days of being in pain and tired.
3 comments:
Due to thenature of my job i suffered back aches in bed, until i purchased some tempurpedic mattresses & tempurpedic beds, they are amazing! my back has got significantly better, the pain hasnt completely gone but the bed has helped a lot!
Getting a memory foam mattress was definitley the best decision I've ever made. I mean, I know they are pretty expensive but the relief it's brought me for my sleep is priceless. I've suffered back pain for years now, but seriously 1 month sleeping on my new bed and life is feeling a lot brighter. For people looking for one, I know there are a lot of mattresses to chose from, so from my experience try avoiding the cheapest option and go for a mid-range one instead.
A lot of people are surprised when they buy a memory foam mattress and find it's actually a combination of layers, with memory foam on the the top, as you said. This is actually beneficial to customers though, as it keeps the bed from getting TOO soft as you sink deeper and deeper, and keeps costs reasonable as well!
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