While I’ve been on the hunt for a new mattress (soft, as I’m a hypermobile side sleeper and medium to firm mattresses make me bruise and sublux) I’ve learnt a few things: side sleeping is the most common sleeping position, while medium-firm is the most popular mattress firmness. Softer mattresses are much harder to come by. However, soft mattresses are also supposedly the best for side-sleepers while medium-firm is for back sleepers and firm is for stomach sleepers, so how does this work together? Are most people sleeping on the wrong mattress?
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The weight is much more influencial on the type of mattress you should get than your sleeping position, thats just a fact of physics. A 50kg person probably wont sink at all into a medium and just a bit into a softer one while a 150kg person will still sink in quite a bit into a medium and would basicly get burried in a very soft one. So this is more a testament to most people being overweight than anything else.
The firmness regarding your sleeping position should be in relation to your weight so if most people were back sleepers the most popular mattress would probably be a very firm one.
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