# Does your memory foam bed "sleep hot"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128 "2007-11-12T14:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/21 "2007-11-13T22:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] I am gonna splurge on one of these memory foam babies! And I hope it really doesn’t sleep hot, because I love cool sheets beneath me. Being too hot at night gives me nightmares like I’m trapped in some kind of coffin or something! [/QUOTE] If you have a sheet, then the comforter, you can always toss the comforter aside. I’m also a person who always has cold arms, so I wear pajamas with sleeves to bed every night, so it’s easy for me to become too hot at night if I have all the blankets and stuff on top of me. You might not find it too hot if you wear less clothing and have only a sheet on you. As for too much give-- no, that’s definitely not a problem. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/22 "2007-11-14T12:12:52Z")
My husband radiats heat like a human furnace so I fear that we’d both suffer if the bed retained that heat. [Overstock.com](http://Overstock.com) has one that is advertised as being “cool”. I’m going to have to research the return policy before we purchase. I need a new bed though. I am not sleeping well at all. Lindsey Wagner is taunting me daily with her sleep number bed ads but hubby and his ex got a sleep number bed about 2 weeks before they split up and now he’s just not willing to travel down that road again. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/23 "2007-11-14T13:40:21Z")
The problem I have is that I sleep on my side and my shoulders are fairly broad and my hips rather narrow. Yet it’s my waist area that heats up the most, causing the memory foam to compress more in that area than near my shoulders, where the foam stays fairly stiff. As a result, by morning, my upper back (at the bottom of my shoulder blades) is extremely stiff and sore because my waist and hips are so much lower than my shoulders. They’re extremely comfortable to lay on when I first get into bed. But not so great when I look at the bigger picture of a full night’s sleep. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/24 "2007-11-14T17:25:11Z")
We have a full Tempurpedic mattress, not a topper. I know Ohio isn’t exactly a “warm climate,” but it does get fairly hot and muggy in August. We are both very hot people and produce a fair amount of body heat. We do not have a problem with the bed being too hot. The salesman that sold us our bed told us, in fact, that a local couple returned their bed because it was too cold. Make of that what you will. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/25 "2007-11-15T05:15:06Z")
I’ve only ever slept on memory foam in San Diego and Tucson, AZ. Never had a problem. BTW, yes, use a mattress cover. > [@Nzinga](#): > > How would you owners of full-out Memory Foam mattresses (not just the mattress tops) say these beds perform during sex? Do they ‘give’ too much? I dunno, I’ve never had sex with my bed. 😃 In all seriousness, no, they’re just fine. Better, actually. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128/26 "2007-11-15T05:47:56Z")
Get a sheep wool fleece mattress cover, the thicker the better- if you slepp hot on any sort of mattress. The real stuff- _not synthetic_. Cool in summer, warm in winter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-memory-foam-bed-sleep-hot/426128.md?page=1)