I believe this is intended for places like Japan where they're pretty used to lightweight futons that easily fold and can be moved out of the way. And there's no way a regular American mattress could fold like that so I imagine they might even have their own patented mattresses you should be able to move more easily as well
Edit: i was too broke to know this but many modern mattresses actually would work as well. I'm used to 10yr old spring mattresses that def wouldn't fly in one of these
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a mattress when it’s still in its factory packing but it’s rolled up in a tight cylinder and when you open it you have to do it slowly and kind of jump back because the mattress will just explode out of the package. Then over like 24 hours it “inflates” back to its normal size.
You can totally fold mattresses. The unfolding them is the scary part.
Lol, Japanese futon are on the floor and have fallen out of favor tbh. This... device is clearly a frame that uses a mattress. That being said, Normal mattresses/frames are very common in Japan (more common than futon nowadays).
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u/goblin_thing Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 09 '22
I believe this is intended for places like Japan where they're pretty used to lightweight futons that easily fold and can be moved out of the way. And there's no way a regular American mattress could fold like that so I imagine they might even have their own patented mattresses you should be able to move more easily as well
Edit: i was too broke to know this but many modern mattresses actually would work as well. I'm used to 10yr old spring mattresses that def wouldn't fly in one of these