A Recharge Done Right

Your mattress and pillow work together like a charger for your body. For a proper recharge, you need the right gear. Here is our guide to choosing the right ones for you.

Dream.co.uk’s Your Life in Numbers infographic estimates that the average person spends 33 years in bed. Where did the number come from? It’s based on the average lifespan of healthy humans, which is 79 years, and the amount of sleep a human should get in a day for a restful night’s sleep, which is seven or eight hours. As a result, 26 years or 227,760 hours of that lifetime were spent sleeping. The other seven was the time spent trying to fall asleep. Research is essential to selecting the right products, as it is with any other major purchase in your life. But how do we start? Here are some points to consider and handy tips from experts.

SIZE

Do you sleep alone or with a partner? How big is your bedroom? These factors determine mattress size. Being the most substantial item in your bedroom, its size plays a crucial role in the room’s layout, so getting a new one could be a good time for a makeover.

According to Simmons, the standard sizes popular in Singapore are:

Single = 91cm x 190cm

Super Single = 107cm x 190cm

Queen = 152cm x 190cm

King = 182cm x 190cm

King Long = 182cm x 198cm

US King = 193cm x 203cm

FIRMNESS

The international mattress industry uses a firmness scale ranging from one to 10, with one being the softest and 10 the firmest. As a general rule, the heavier you are, the firmer your mattress should be. Your sleeping habits also play a role. Side sleepers need mattresses scaled two to four, back sleepers and couples, five to seven, and stomach sleepers and people with back pain, eight to 10.