Memory Foam Mattress: The Promise of a Restful Night

By Fabian Toulouse

How fortunate we are to live in modern times! Forget all the conveniences of cell phones, air travel, and electricity-just consider the fact that you are not sharing a straw tick mattress with many other family members! Imagine, a couple of centuries ago, people were just deciding to move the uncomfortable collection of logs and ropes that passed as a bed out of the kitchen or living room and into a private room created only for sleeping. Just think of all the bad backs and irritability! Getting a good night's sleep would have been impossible were people not working eighteen hours a day.

Yes, we are fortunate to be able to lie down on a lovely bed frame in a private bedroom on a real mattress. The very lucky ones enjoy the benefits of a memory foam mattress. Memory foam is a technologically superior material originally designed by NASA to protect astronauts during lift off. NASA, however, never used it.

In the public sector, for a long while its out of reach cost made memory foam accessible primarily to hospitals and nursing care facilities. Now it is regularly available in pillows, mattresses, mattress toppers, and seating, and the cost is becoming acceptable to the general population.

People are finding that a night on a memory foam mattress really does offer a different sleep experience. Though they may seem surprisingly hard at first, the warmth of your body soon causes the mattress to conform to your shape, firmly and evenly distributing your weight. This support inhibits restlessness and the stiffness people often feel after a night on an inferior mattress.

No one wishes to go back to the days of the straw tick mattress, but if you are still sleeping on a spring mattress and box springs, you are still stuck in the old days! For unbeatable sleeping, nothing compares to a memory foam mattress.

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If you're in the market of for a memory foam mattress, be sure you buy from a respected memory foam mattress retailer!