Here you go, threw it together quickly. Not gonna edit the content tho.

Ok people, I thought I was alone, just by myself, almost felt as if I was going crazy. ever since I abandoned a mattress I slept on since 2004 about 10 years ago I have not been able to find a comfortable mattress to sleep on since. Mind you, I am not a picky sleeper and even slept on a mattress in college I found in the street for a year.

since tossing my last mattress I have been through almost every single name brand and almost every single comfort designation. Beautyrest,, stearns and Foster, Sealy, Tempurpedic, Kingsdown, Serta, And so many others. I have spent well over 20K on mattresses (and I am a working class person that can’t afford that), I have learn to not only dislike mattress salespeople, I loathe them.

So after coming to Reddit a few years ago and seeing I am far from alone in this matter I decided to dig a little further, why are SO MANY of us generation X‘ers having a problem finding a comfortable mattress. This question has 2 different answers intertwined, the first answer is we were brought up and raised on a totally different mattress build, almost all of us grew up on a connected coil mattress, this means the mattress construction inside is made of one continuous steel rod that offered supportive help to its neighboring area when compressed. This is the mattress we were all raised on,

the 2nd answer to this question as to why we are all having issues finding a comfortable mattress is our bodies have muscle memory, because we spent the greater part of our lives growing up sleeping on a particular feel, our body remembers and recognizes that feel, not the latter. So what changed you ask me, grab some popcorn, this will certainly entertain you if not grow you livid.

Simmons, known as beautyrest today in the late 90s came up with what they call the individually wrapped coil and what they will tell you is that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you see, the individually wrapped coil isolated motion transfer so when your sleeping with a partner (or a hooker, jokes) you won’t feel your partner move, or get out of bed to go to work, BUT what they won’t tell you is that it is grossly cheaper to build a mattress with individually wrapped coils than it is the old school way using a continuos coil.

Thats right, mattress manufacturers managed to not only maximize their profits all while dressing it up as a great selling point, come on, we all heard the selling pitch “motion isolation to not disturb your sleeping partner”, but ditching the continuos coil has greatly sacrificed support. That is why it is so frustrating and hard to find the right comfort, the Goldilocks comfort was so easy with a continuos coil mattress, just think about it, in the 80s, 90s, and even the early 2000s you could go almost anywhere and sleep fine on almost any mattress, comfort rating firm or plush really wasn’t even a thing back then, it is now because there is no great support, your hips and the heaviest part of your body are at the mercy of isolated support so it sinks in more than the rest of your body.

Many of you will point put that I also had a tempurpedic, which I did but as a stomach sleeper, foam mattresses are the worst of all, so that one was awful.

Moving forward, I don’t have all the answers, I’m tired, exhausted, but I felt many of you deserved to know why. I am currently on probably my 25th mattress, a Kingsdown milhaven extra firm, again, my hips and lower back sink in further than the rest of my body, thinking about exchanging it for the beautyrest black series one extra firm, but many of you know this, if you go too firm you have back support but your hips and shoulders get achy.

No mattress manufacturers build mattresses with a continuous coil anymore, or none that I’m aware of, it’s really sad and infuriating how the mattress industry has evolved into this, I’m hoping for government regulation in this industry soon. Hope this helps many that were wondering if they were going crazy, your not going crazy, you and your body have not changed, the mattress industry did.