Life's Little Pleasures

I'll sleep on top
posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 9:18 PM | 0 cmnt/s

Mattresses.

They are so undervalued.

You don't appreciate the value of a good mattress until you're presented with a bad one.

It's a serious matter.

Take, for example, my mattress at home. It's served me well over the years and, like most mattresses, has moulded to fit my shape. What a good mattress. It dips perfectly in the middle and give me a wonderful night sleep.

But it wasn't until I arrived in Bangkok that I began to appreciate just how good my mattress back home, all those miles away (!!), actually was.

The mattress here, in contrast, lacked a certain comfort, a certain sink that a familiar mattress holds.

I didn't sleep well on that first night, purely because of the mattress.

Upon consultation, I came to the conclusion that as a general rule, mattresses in Asia are typically hard. This conclusion was based upon personal experience and discussions with others whom had had similar experiences.

So to unravel the reasoning behind this conclusion, I did what any good Gen-Y kid would do and I googled it.

My research directed me to one explanation which seemed perfectly plausible:

On the Fodor's travel website, on a thread asking "Why are the beds (mattresses) so hard in Asia?", one posted under the name of Jaya comments that in India there is a "long, deeply rooted belied that sleeping on anything soft will deform and curve the spine and cause problems with the spine later in life."

Perhaps this same thought can be extrapolated across Asia?



On a slightly related comment, maybe there is something to that Indian belief.

I own a soft mattress. I have a deformed and curved spine that has caused me problems.

Conclusion: my soft, familiar mattress is the cause of my back problems.
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