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
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Whaat 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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This makes sense...the heavy the person, the more need for greater firmness to offset compression. The perception of firmness of the mattress is based in large part on how much the mattress sags/moves/compresses once the person is on it: heavier the person, the softer the feel.
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But its becoming more dense via conpression
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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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eyyyy hip pain gang

my weight gain goal is entirely for the purpose of feeling more comfortable on firm surfaces
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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.
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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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