In the world of rest there are many facts that may still be unknown to you, in this post we will talk about some curiosities about mattresses and rest. Surely many of them you know, others probably do not, as they say “knowledge takes no place”. Here are some curiosities about mattresses and rest: – We spend sleeping on our mattress an average of almost 28 years, which is equivalent to almost a third in the computation of our life. – The word mattress has its origin in the French word couche, taking as a reference the word quilt and understood as a bed cover, introduced approximately in 1945. – For the RAE, the term mattress derives from quilt, which comes from the Latin culcita, meaning mattress or quilt. – The wool mattress arrived in Europe after the Crusades, when Europeans imitated the Arab custom of sleeping on cushions. – A mattress can have a useful life of up to 10 years. According to ASOCAMA (Spanish Bed Association), it is advisable to change the mattress once it has reached those years, it all depends on the use we make of it. – In a mattress we can find more than 2 million dust mites. These are not allergic, but they do have a protein that they expel through their feces. We must make sure that the mattress is anti-dust mite, that is to say, that it helps to repel them. – The oldest mattress in the world was unearthed in South Africa in 2011. It was created by humans who lived in a cave 77,000 years ago and the mattress was found under a large amount of bedding made from herbs and plants. – It is very important that mattresses have a good ventilation system, as our body eliminates water through its pores in the form of perspiration. – According to a study made by NASA about the well-known Spanish siesta, we would need a 26-minute nap to increase our performance by 35% and our level of alertness by 55%. If you can afford a short nap, do it. – Lack of rest also depends on a poor quality mattress. – Spain is a world leader in the consumption of sleeping pills.
Curiosities about mattresses
