Review of the Ultimate Dreams mattress

[phoenix]

Hi ddcfri,

Currently I need pressure relief. I have been sleeping on a Bedinabox pacbed original with only 3’ of 3 lb. foam and after 2 years I am sinking down too far to the support layer. This has resulted in pain in both my upper arms as well as in my back and joints,

This is one of the disadvantages of 3 lb memory foam which is a less durable material and will soften faster than higher density memory foams.

[quote]Jacob suggested the Aloe Alexis but it is out of my price range (unless I absolutely needed it to relieve the pain—then I could maybe swing it but it would be hard. I saw the DreamFoam Ultimate Dreams latex mattress on Amazon and I wonder if I can get away with that.

I am concerned that if the 3’ latex layer is too firm it will be too bouncy and not allow me to sink in at all; and if it is too soft I will sink right down to the support layer.

Is it true that with the proper ILD you can sink in a bit into a latex layer? And also in the lower ILDs that it will not be bouncy?[/quote]

Like all of their mattresses … the Ultimate Dreams is certainly a good quality/value choice and if you choose the most suitable ILD for you it can certainly do a good job in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences) but latex will never feel like memory foam because it’s a fast response material and memory foam is a slow response material (see post #2 here for more about how they compare). You would sink in more deeply into lower ILD latex than higher ILD’s but even low ILD latex is more resilient than memory foam although it would be less “bouncy” than higher ILD’s. The best way to know how you would feel about lower ILD latex would be to test it locally and see how you liked it. Like any material … no matter what the benefits of latex may be … if you don’t like how it feels then it probably wouldn’t be the best choice for you.

In order to try to get the most bang for my buck, I was thinking that, if I needed an extra 3’ of latex, I could add a latex topper to Ultimate Dreams for much less money than the Aloe Alexis.

That’s certainly an option but it can also be somewhat difficult to choose the thickness and ILD of a topper that is a good match for you on a specific mattress in terms of PPP and if the latex in the Ultimate Dreams was already soft enough for you and you didn’t need the additional pressure relief from a topper, then if you add more soft layers on top of the mattress there would be a risk of alignment issues. I wouldn’t add a topper to a mattress if you didn’t need it just for the sake of having more latex. The best reason to add a topper is to add additional pressure relief to a mattress that is too firm.

Phoenix