Help with choosing memory foam mattress

[phoenix]

Hi blueorchidz,

I did a quick chat with Chuck at Dreamfoam yesterday. He recommended the Copper Gel Memory Foam Mattress. He said the Arctic Dreams mattress uses a type of memory foam that has more of a spring to it, and would feel a little more like a traditional spring mattress. Unfortunately, when I went to order it from Amazon, they had just sold out of the queen size. So I guess I am back to the drawing board.

The Arctic Dreams uses a high performance polyfoam which isn’t actually memory foam and as he mentioned is more resilient or “springy” than memory foam (see post #2 here).

I would also make sure that you find out the density of the foam layers in the Copper Gel memory foam mattress (or any mattress) before you purchase it.

If anyone has either of these mattress and can give me their opinion on firmness, I would appreciate it.

I would be cautious with other people’s opinions about firmness because different people can have very different perceptions of firmness and softness compared to others and a mattress that feels firm for one person can feel like “medium” for someone else or even “soft” for someone else (or vice versa) depending on their body type, sleeping style, physiology, their frame of reference based on what they are used to, and their individual sensitivity and perceptions. There are also different types of firmness and softness that different people may be sensitive to that can affect how they “rate” a mattress as well (see post #15 here) so different people can also have very different opinions on how two mattresses compare in terms of firmness and some people may rate one mattress as being firmer than another and someone else may rate them the other way around. This is all relative and very subjective and is as much an art as a science.

Phoenix