Problem 1: I’ve been having trouble finding a mattress I like. Most of them are too hard. I like soft. We currently have a memory foam mattress topper, that is very soft and nice, but it has too good memory, so there is a significant dipp in the middle of where I sleep, making me sleep all bent. We got a new one, and it only took months for the problem to reappear. I could try more combinations of mattresses and mattress toppers, but that would cost too much time and money, since just seeing what I like in the shop is not reliable.
Solution 1: I put a thin pillow between the mattress and the mattress topper, in the position between my hipp and my shoulder. It works great!
I’m a side sleeper, and my sides are not flat. My hipp and shoulder sticks out. Therefore a flat mattress is not the ideal shape for me. But most other humans are not very flat too, so why are non-flat mattresses not a common thing?
Problem 2: I don’t like the pillow I’ve been sleeping on. It’s too hard, and sometimes my ear hurts a bit when I wake up. But it’s the only one I have that is just the right height, and finding any pillow that is the right height is really hard. If it’s to high or to low, my neck will start hurting after a few days.
Solution: I filled a pillow protector[1] with shredded foam. I don’t know yet if it’s the perfect thickness, but if it isn’t I’ll put some more in or take some out tomorrow, until it’s exactly right. (I also considered cutting open another pillow and take some stuffing out of it, but since I had the ingredients to make a new one, I went with this.)
I have had these problems for a while, and apparently just failed to apply thoughts to try to solve them. To my (partial) defense there where reasons it wasn’t too bad until recently, and I had other things taking up my problem solving capacity.
I’m writing this down in case someone else could benefit from these solutions and hasn’t thought about it them selves yet.
And also, does anyone know why there is not a market for non-flat mattresses? Or is there one, and I just missed it? @Lucius Bushnaq told me about a mattress store where they made individual adjustments to the wooden bords under the mattress, which is in this direction, so that’s something.
My pillow has some adjustable height thin cushions. I feel like something similar must be purchasable separately, “pillow booster” might be the right term but I’m not sure.
I think because body shapes too much. Even if two people are the same height (which most people aren’t), they will still probably have their shoulders and hips and knees spaced differently. A contoured mattress would therefore have the contours in the wrong places for almost everyone, which would be even worse than a flat mattress.
But like you, I would also like a mattress with contours shaped to my body.
I’ve discovered one bed and one pillow hack!
Problem 1: I’ve been having trouble finding a mattress I like. Most of them are too hard. I like soft. We currently have a memory foam mattress topper, that is very soft and nice, but it has too good memory, so there is a significant dipp in the middle of where I sleep, making me sleep all bent. We got a new one, and it only took months for the problem to reappear. I could try more combinations of mattresses and mattress toppers, but that would cost too much time and money, since just seeing what I like in the shop is not reliable.
Solution 1: I put a thin pillow between the mattress and the mattress topper, in the position between my hipp and my shoulder. It works great!
I’m a side sleeper, and my sides are not flat. My hipp and shoulder sticks out. Therefore a flat mattress is not the ideal shape for me. But most other humans are not very flat too, so why are non-flat mattresses not a common thing?
Problem 2: I don’t like the pillow I’ve been sleeping on. It’s too hard, and sometimes my ear hurts a bit when I wake up. But it’s the only one I have that is just the right height, and finding any pillow that is the right height is really hard. If it’s to high or to low, my neck will start hurting after a few days.
Solution: I filled a pillow protector[1] with shredded foam. I don’t know yet if it’s the perfect thickness, but if it isn’t I’ll put some more in or take some out tomorrow, until it’s exactly right. (I also considered cutting open another pillow and take some stuffing out of it, but since I had the ingredients to make a new one, I went with this.)
I have had these problems for a while, and apparently just failed to apply thoughts to try to solve them. To my (partial) defense there where reasons it wasn’t too bad until recently, and I had other things taking up my problem solving capacity.
I’m writing this down in case someone else could benefit from these solutions and hasn’t thought about it them selves yet.
And also, does anyone know why there is not a market for non-flat mattresses? Or is there one, and I just missed it? @Lucius Bushnaq told me about a mattress store where they made individual adjustments to the wooden bords under the mattress, which is in this direction, so that’s something.
Like a pillow case, but thicker, and with a zipper.
Re: Problem 2
My pillow has some adjustable height thin cushions. I feel like something similar must be purchasable separately, “pillow booster” might be the right term but I’m not sure.
https://www.amazon.com/LOFE-Adjustable-Memory-Pillows-Layer/dp/B0C2TF6Q1M?th=1
I think because body shapes too much. Even if two people are the same height (which most people aren’t), they will still probably have their shoulders and hips and knees spaced differently. A contoured mattress would therefore have the contours in the wrong places for almost everyone, which would be even worse than a flat mattress.
But like you, I would also like a mattress with contours shaped to my body.