Positioning is everything

Have you ever heard the phrase “Oh, I just slept wrong last night”? The person has a sore shoulder or hip or other joint, and they think it’s because of the way that they slept? Well, it might not be because of the position they slept in. It might be because of their mattress.

Getting a good night’s sleep depends on a couple of things. Some you’'ve already heard about, like going to bed early and getting at least seven hours of sleep. Others, like how you should allow yourself to wake up on your own instead of be jolted out of sleep by an alarm, you might not have heard of. And still others, like your sleep needs to be unbroken, you might think are beyond your control.

That would be where you’re wrong. The quality of the sleep you’re getting while you’re sleeping is not beyond your control. It all comes down to the mattress that you’re using. If you have an uncomfortable mattress, you’re sure to be tossing and turning all night. You might wake up with a crick in your neck from not enough support, or from too little support. Or you may wake up with sore joints. In any of these cases, you’re not getting any unbroken sleep. You’re waking up just enough to move around before going back to sleep again.

In order for your sleep to be restful, you need to cycle in and out of REM sleep around five times. If you don’t do so, you’re not getting the amount of sleep that your brain needs to function at its highest level. This is a problem. The reason why moving up towards waking in your sleep cycle reduces your REM time is that there are many stages of the cycle that you need to go through before reaching REM. If you don’t manage to make it through the fourth cycle, called delta sleep, before your uncomfortable mattress makes you wake up and shift around, you’re not getting the sleep that you need.

Memory foam mattress changes this. It’s designed to be the ultimate comfortable mattress. Whatever position you like to sleep in, the memory foam mattress will mold itself to that, creating a surface that is molded perfectly to your body. The way it works is that the foam is stiff until it’s heated with your body heat. Then it allows you to sink down.

The only places that your body heats up are the places that it’s touching; therefore the mattress becomes perfectly molded to the shape of your body, allowing you to get a full night of good sleep. You won’t be telling people you slept wrong anymore if you switch to a memory foam mattress or Divan bed.


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