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At least once a week I see a commercial for the Sleep Number bed. Each time it goes on and on about how fabulous it is. I hate to admit it, but I fell for the marketing hype and actually bought one of these beds.
The first thing that stuck out to me was what the bed was made of … inside was nothing more than two air mattresses (side by side) covered in a lining. If you add more air the mattress is firmer and if you let out some of the air, the mattress is softer.
Only it’s not really a bed mattress, you are in fact sleeping on an air mattress, not unlike the $2 ones you pick up at your local Walmart to play with during the summer.
The top mattress has a problem staying on top of the bed frame. When you wake up you can find it has moved as much as a full foot down.
This slippage is a commonly reported problem among several of the models but most often among the lower end scales, those which sale for less than $1,000.
Because of the way the bed is made, if one side has a low number, the other side a higher (or firmer) number, and you happen to move over in the middle of the night and get half way on your side, halfway on the other side, you can wake up with a severe pinch or sharp pain in your back. It is reported by people to feel like a “horribly painful muscle spasm”. When I first heard about this I didn’t personally experience it. However one night my husband was out of town and I did move over onto his side while he was away, during my sleep and woke up in the most horrible pain in my life. I couldn’t breath. I thought someone had punched me in the ribs. It was beyond painful.
Let me just make it simple for you and say do yourself a huge favor and avoid buying a bed like this at all costs. It’s the worst investment in furniture I ever made.
The commercials flat out lie. It will not be the best night’s sleep you’ve ever got and the longer you own this piece of crap bed, the more you realize your mistake for buying it in the first place.
The Sleep Number Bed Sucks!
Aimless Amy 
Sleep number sucks!!!
So happy the bed would not fit up our stairs. Totally dodged a bullet. Still spending time waiting for customer service.
I wholeheartedly agree. After having spinal fusion in 2011, my husband, God bless his soul, but a sleep number mattress. Six years later in 2017, the mattress has dents in it like a typical mattress. And there is nothing you can do about it. You can’t turn it around because of the air system, and you are right. It’s just sleeping on a damn air mattress. One which you might find in a tent. It disgusts me that we spent that much money on this piece of???. You know what I’m trying to say
How much does this bed sell for??
I’ve never had an issue with these beds. Growing up, my parents had a basic Sleep Number king sized mattress. No pillow top, just two inner bed with a corded remote and the plastic bottom board it came with. I loved their bed as a child and wanted one of my own. At 18, they bought me a brand new sleep number bed that was a basic twin with an upgraded remote and inflating box. It’s not half bad…for a $200 mattress. Some issues with it, and it isn’t as comfortable as my parents’, but not bad. It didn’t come with a plastic board. I guess the new ones aren’t built as good as the new ones but I know that happens with a lot of things. I give it an 8/10. Way better than a standard air mattress (which we have three of for camping) and much better than a box spring mattress.
A Minnesota Company with Zero Ethics.
We bought a Sleep Number bed and paid thousands of dollars for it. In addition, we bought an upgrade to have the Dual temp($1,500). Along with this we paid a few more hundred dollars to have the universal remote so we would not have multiple remotes at the bed side.
This universal remote worked great for 4 plus years until recently when the CEO (Shelly Ibach) decided to make a technology change with no regard to how it impacted your existing customer base and the amount of money they spent to have that feature. Essentially they deployed new technology knowing it would make all the universal remotes in the market place not function.
There solution is not to return the hundreds of dollars one spent on the universal remote or even replace it with a new universal remote but rather give you a second remote. The old universal remote will control the sleep number and the 2nd remote controls the Dual Temp. Well this defeats the purpose of having a universal remote (one remote) plus what about all the cash I paid for the product that Ms. Ibach decided to disable?
I agree with every word my husband and I have hated this bed for years! Worst furniture investment for sure! We finally got a new bed and love it so far!
Booooooo
You are absolutely 100% right. This bed does everything you say. Also to add I never ever had any back pain ever in my life. After having the bed for a few months and now I have severe back pain. I hate this bed. The worsed investment ever!!!