Three nights of sleeping on this new latex bed including the latex pillows and I wish I could get a few more shipped out to people that I care about.
I thought it might be too soft for me when I laid on the bare mattress after set-up. Two minutes was not enough to gauge it or even to mention in my previous thread. The thin mattress protector fits snug, not taunt and my sheets aren't tight. What I've ended up with is a really good feel. The first night it did take longer than normal to fall asleep, that is diminishing.
The support under the top is very important to me. This is so unlike the regular coiled spring beds I've slept on my whole life. So different from a water-bed with a couple baffles. It's there without question, but is incomparable to the rock hardness of an exercise mat. Not like the hardness under a sleeping bag, leaves and grass when camping out. This support is firm and supple everywhere under me.
Descriptions of the differences between laying on a memory foam or a latex mattress at this site are relevant and helpful. I read it once described as lying in memory foam or laying on latex. Feeling the 3" latex layer doesn't resemble the feel when memory foam has felt like it enveloped me. Now I guess that when a different set of sheets that fits tight changes the feel I might notice since I've thought of this issue so much lately. The shredded latex pillows resemble a down pillow, but they're different also. I had been not liking my ten year old fiber-fill? pillows much the last few months. These are nice!
Ok, we're not rich and everyone probably knows how keeping your home a few degrees higher in the summer and lower in the cold helps your wallet. With ceiling fans our ac is set on 79 at night right now. With my fan on low like normal and having the sheet halfway up over me it does seem that this bed sleeps cool enough for me.
That takes me to the place of purchase and their policies. Brooklyn Bedding has the four month trial period. The warranty on my model is twenty years. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse! Their staff is good and recognize what it takes to make a sale without being like a stereotypical car salesman. On the other hand they realized I was serious about getting a mattress too. I have also just joined a long list of folks that have been happy with the way they treat people and their products.
How you sleep effects how you are the next day, and I'm sure a lot of you that bounced from the couch to the air-bed to wherever know this. For a person as opinionated and stubborn as myself to be this pleased afterwards is only because I learned a lot here. Buying something with such necessarily important intricate parameters and having it turn out this well is just unreal.
Thanks to all of you that shared what you know on this subject. Talkin' to you here especially Phoenix, good job with your website!