Sleep Number Mattress And Beds

Have you ever felt, when you and your spouse go bed shopping, that both of you have extremely different preferences in the way you sleep? You are accustomed to sleep in a particular way, and your partner likes some other manner of sleeping… Doesn’t it send shudders down your spine sometimes how you will be able to share a bed for life with a person who wants to sleep in an entirely different way than you are accustomed to? You might like sleeping on a firm surface, but your partner might want a 'Princess and the Pea' soft bed. So what do you do?

Sleep number beds are a good option for facing these kinds of sleep time blues. With sleep number beds you can – hold your breaths, this is true – control the manner in which you sleep on the bed! In short, you can make your sleep number mattress and the bed itself as soft or as firm as you want, as cold or as warm as you want, as level or as sloping as you want, and even as high or as low as you want. And the best thing is, you can have two different kinds of alternatives for two different sides of the bed. That means, you get the sleeping comfort you want, and your spouse gets the kind of sleeping comfort they are used to. You no longer have to crib about your crib!

Sleep Number Beds – How Do They Work?

Though the sleep number beds have been in the market for over a decade now, and though several celebrities have endorsed them in thousands of advertisements, they are still relatively unknown in their principle.

The sleep number beds are an actual patented invention of Select Comfort, an outfit based in Minnesota. Though Select Comfort is the inventor of the sleep number beds and their several modifications that have hit the market ever since, today we find dozens of companies gate-crashing the party. Of course, each gate-crasher has their own sets of advantages and disadvantages in comparison of the real sleep number beds, and in fact, some people would prefer the later entrants. It happens in every product – there's an original invention, but then it has its flaws which are improved upon by later companies. So, when you are shopping for a sleep number bed now, you must look out for the features that all companies provide, and then make your pick accordingly.

The sleep number beds work by maintaining an adjustable air layer above the mattress, and just below the sleeping surface. With the help of various coils and springs, these air layers can be adjusted. Users are provided with a remote control by which they can change the settings of the bed, and hence fine tune it to the way they want to sleep.

The whole principle depends upon the concept of sleep number. The Select Comfort site has quantified every person's sleeping comfort with a number between 0 and 100, which is known as the sleep number. The sleep number depends on several factors – your height, weight and gender, the posture you sleep in, the level of tiredness you feel in the day, the intensity with which you sleep in the night… all of these influence your sleep number. There is a sleep number calculator on the website itself, where you can calculate what your sleep number is. Or, you can visit Select Comfort's stores and find out your sleep number.

This sleep number can be adjusted on the bed. Both ends of the bed can have different sleep numbers. That means, the two people sharing the bed can tune the bed to their own sleep numbers.

Sleep Number Beds – The Advantages

The advantages of sleep number beds are quite obvious by their principle of working. Since both partners will be able to adjust their beds according to their own preferences, there will be no more comprises in the manner of sleeping for the partners. They can get what they want. Also, they will be able to sleep restfully. This is very important in stopping snoring, which is always a nuisance to the other partner. By changing the bed settings, a very peaceful sleep can be obtained, so the partners can say goodbye to snoring forever.

Also, it really helps when the wife is pregnant. By changing the bed settings, she can adjust the bed to the exact degree of comfort she prefers, which could change each week of the pregnancy. This is very ideal for providing a healthy restful sleep to the woman, which is an absolute necessity during the pregnancy months.

Sleep Number Beds – The Disadvantages

The sleep number beds might require maintenance and repair often, but that depends on how you use these beds. These beds have a large number of coils and springs, and that does mean a lot of wear and tear. In addition, buying these beds and maintaining them is indeed costly, and hence these beds are not affordable to most people.

One more disadvantage, or rather limitation, is in the principle of working of these beds. The older beds used a closed air flow structure. This was not suitable actually, because if one partner would sleep on the bed, the air would be directed to the other end of the bed, which meant that the other partner would have to sleep on that air cushion, whether they needed it or not. However, such a shortcoming is now removed by using open flow airbeds.