Sunday, March 08, 2015

Day 5: The 30-Day @Casper Mattress Challenge

Night 5 (officially), back from travel.  Having slept on a Spring Air mattress at Residence Inn, I now have a definite point of comparison from a "sink in" perspective.  (If you didn't know, Spring Air is quite possibly the most comfortable overall mattress possible.  But it IS a spring mattress.)

Sleep Pattern

Again, it's the weekend so noise was not as bad or as prevalent.  I was also dead tired due to extensive travel, medication and long working hours.

I laid down around 8pm, knocked out around 9pm, which is a record for me.   I don't exactly remember reaching REM sleep though; I assume I must have and don't remember, but I was out until 7:00am the next morning.  I got up groggy, which was strange.

To compare, the Spring Air mattress plus a waffle cone ice cream had me knocked out cold for a good 12 hours, but with no dreaming, even after reading rather vivid books. Without the waffle cone, I was about 6-7 hours sleep with mid-time wakeup.

Body And Positioning

I turned maybe twice.  To be fair, I was also tossing and turning on the Spring Air mattress, and quite a bit more, so maybe my body just doesn't like being stationary, I don't know.  It's also possible that my body was starting to get used to the Casper mattress and reacted to this totally different mattress.

No heat overcoming.  This is with the thermostat set to 70 and the exterior temperature in the high 30's/low 40's; that's WITH pajama bottoms.

No pain at all this time.

Mattress Durability

Shape still intact.  After my 5-day business trip I noticed the softness was gone, too.  So it will go back firm eventually as long as you don't sleep on it for a while.