A few months back, I took the plunge and bought one of those sleep number beds, and I couldn’t be happier. My wife is into mushy sleeping, while I would prefer a concrete slab. My number? 85. Hers? I firm yet respectible 55.
So I was looking at hotels for a possible upcoming business trip (if I don’t get another job first) and I see Radissons now have sleep number beds! That’s it. It’s decided. If I pack my own pillows, I’ll be sleepin like a baby. All they need is some automated wife-bot that steals all the blankets in the middle of the night, and it will be just like I’m sleeping at home. The last hotel I stayed at for work had one of those space age foam beds. So my sleep schedule was this: Try to sleep on plane, try to sleep on foam, try to sleep on foam, try to sleep on plane. My back was fucked for weeks afterwards.
I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our new sleep number overlords.
The sleep number beds are the ones that have the air pump so you can adjust the firmness. I likes me a firm bed, the wife, not so much. The last matress I caved and got the one she liked, and paid for it with my back for nearly 5 years.
The TemperPedic is the evil foam of which I spoke. I’d prefer to be beaten about the neck and back and then be given a sleep number bed than to suffer the evil foam again.
45ish here. Typo Knig is, I dunno, about a 15 or so? We bought ours as a replacement for our waterbed (which we loved), the 4th time it had to be replaced in 10 years. See, if the Sleep Number bed leaks, at least your clothes don’t get wet and you don’t break your back heaving the old one off the platform…
I like it just fine. My spouse hates it - he’s had a hell of a time trying to get the setting right so that his back doesn’t hurt constantly.
We tried the TempurPedic back when we were looking at the Sleep Number bed and I found that, when lying on my side, it felt like my hips were being pushed “up” and out of alignment with my spine.
What is the center divide like? I’ll be buying a new mattress soon and I’ve always wonder about the center divide of a sleep number bed. Since I sleep alone, (except for the cat) I would have the two sides at the same setting. Is there a point that if I go below, the center divider would be sticking up?
Well, saved our savings account, anyway. Lady Lacha has two herniated discs in her lower back and a pretty screwed up right shoulder, and used to go to a chiropractor once or twice a week back in NY. When we moved to Florida, we said “screw it!” and put a Select Comfort queen on the ol’ Discover.
She keeps her side set at about 30; I’m a straight 50 bloke, myself. She hasn’t had to go to a chiropractor once in 4 years, so I reckon the bed has paid for itself many times over. I think we shelled out about $1300 (I could be mistaken), and got the pillowtop & foundation to boot. Every night we sing it’s praises. Zebra, she had to get up before me this morning, so I stretched out diagonally between her side and mine; I wasn’t even aware of the divider despite the disparity of our setting-numbers. I think the pillowtop helps to smooth over the gap and/or rise.
It’s a type of bed. Each side of the bed has an inflatable bladder, for lack of a better word. If you prefer a firmer mattress, you activate a pump to fill up that bladder with more air; if you prefer softer, you relase air so the bladder gets saggy. The pump/release system is controlled by a hand-held control that features an “up” button and a “down” button. If you want firmer, push the “up” button, and vice-versa. The relative firmness of the mattress is displayed on this controller via a two-digit LCD. This is your “sleep number.” Select Comfort is the manufaturer.
The divider is just a strip of foam “on edge” (vertical) between the two bladders. The divider itself is not noticeable, since it compresses if you move across it.
The big “problem” with one of these, divider-wise, is that if the two sides are radically different as ours are, it can be like falling off a cliff moving from one side to the other.
around 1300 all told. We didn’t need a platform, we had a platform bed from Room & Board, so a box spring/platform was a no go for us. I don’t like pillow tops, and I went for the ‘just above basic’ model. The last King Size mattress we had was somewhere around $700, so far I think it’s worth the extra investment.
It looks like Radisson is the only hotel with it. You’d think more would try it.
The foam is a dream come true for me. Heh. That was totally unintended. We don’t have TempurPedic or anything, though, we just got the foam in blocks and put it on top of the old mattress.
Thank God for the trial period. I couldn’t wait to get ours back in the box and out of the house. That center divider is like a cliff, making for awkward cuddling and/or sex. If it does your back good, great. But I’ve never had a bed I so thoroughly loathed.
IIRC, they also sell them with a large, single air chamber, if different firmness levels for each side aren;t what you’re looking for.
We got a Select Comfort mattress when we got married, as she enjoys sleeping on a marshmallow, while I prefer something sturdier. We went with the bottom-of-the-line queen, without even the “Sleep Number” controllers (we figure that knowing the number is irrelevant so long as you can fiddle with it until you’re comfy), and are quite pleased with it, as are our cats.
My wife and I tried this bed a few years ago. The main problem we had with it was the mattress is so light it floats on the foundation. If we sat on the edge of it the other side would pop up in the air. It was annoying. I also found it to be a bit hotter than a normal mattress, I don’t know why. Anyways we stuffed it back into the 6 boxes and shipped it back.
