Your weight affects how soft or firm you perceive a mattress to be. The same mattress will feel ____ to a heavier person and ____ to a lighter person
- Firmer, softer33.2%
- Softer, firmer66.8%
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A heavy person would compress any mattress more than a light person would, so it would definitely feel firmer to a heavy person than it would a light person.
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Google says light people experience mattresses as firmer, my brain can't handle this
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Maybe it has to do with mattresses with springs? Like maybe an especially light person wouldn't be heavy enough to overcome their spring force constant and therefore wouldn't sink into it like a heavier person would?
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I'm already thin and athletic and if I lose any of my muscle mass (I have no fat), my pelvis pokes through to the springs and I feel bone on spring.
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They have less padding
I'm pretty skinny and often my hipbones ache after sleeping a night on a mattress that others may find to be just fine
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lighter people will deform the mattress less. less deformation subjectively matches with firmer?
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This explains why I'm convinced our mattress is not firm enough and my wife thinks it's perfect.
Yeah I saw it as a perception of firmness vs soft. Im light and dont sink into most beds so my perception of the mattress would be that it is firm, and since the heavy person would sink where i would not i would think they see the mattress as soft.
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Imagine being the size of a mouse. The mattress would be as solid as the ground. (Specifically the mattress, not the sheets or the padding — those would be soft).
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Does it help if you think of it as "floating"?
Like, lighter people "float" more on the mattress, and it feels more solid and firm - heavier people "sink" into the mattress more, and it feels softer.
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My first thought was same as Topper Harley (GreyKnight), but on other hand, at least at extreme, mattress conforms much less to lighter person, so I assume less weight distribution and higher percentage of body weight on particular body parts, which will feel firm. 🤷♂️