Luxury Bedding – How a Memory Foam Mattress Prevents Partner From Disturbing Your Sleep

On traditional mattresses, getting in and out of bed at night can disturb your partners sleep. Getting up off from or laying down on an innerspring bed causes a lot of motion that can wake them up and ruin a good night of sleep. A memory foam mattress prevents motion transfer and allows you to get in and out of bed without bouncing your partner.

First, memory foam inhibits motion transfer because it recovers slowly from impressions. When you press your hand into memory foam and then take it away, memory foam does not bounce right back. Instead it slowly recovers its shape. The same thing applies when you lie down on a memory foam bed. You push against the bed, but it does not push back against you with equal speed. An innerspring bed reacts to pressure much the same way a trampoline does. When you jump down on a trampoline it will force you back with equal speed and pressure - making you fly into the air. If you were to jump on an innerspring mattress, you get the same effect, which is why children love to jump on them. But a memory foam mattress’s reaction is as slow as a turtle. It will push back when you push on it, but only slowly.

Second, because most innerspring beds have connecting coils, a bump on one side of the bed will cause motion across the surface of the entire bed. But an all foam bed limits motion to the immediate area that you are pushing against. For example, just sitting on the edge of a spring mattress can be felt by someone lying on the other side of the bed. But on a memory foam bed, you can not feel a person sitting on the other side of the bed because the motion is limited; it simply does not reach you.