DreamCloud Classic Hybrid  Mattress Review

The DreamCloud Classic Hybrid measures just over 12" (30.5 cm), so you can use standard fitted sheets.

The DreamCloud Classic Hybrid mattress is medium-plush, making it ideal for light to average side sleepers and a good option for lighter back and stomach sleepers as well. Average to heavier back and stomach sleepers and heavier side sleepers will benefit from something more supportive, especially in the lumbar region, to keep the spine aligned.

It's a moderately bouncy mattress, falling in the middle of the pack compared to other hybrid models. This makes it pretty easy to move around on, without feeling overly springy.

This mattress provides moderate sinking, so you sink through the quilted top and a little bit into the comfort layer. The surface doesn't contour your body very closely, so you feel cushioned and cradled, but not tightly hugged.

This is a very responsive mattress. It responds almost instantly when compressed, supporting you as you move around, so switching sleeping positions is easy. 

It does a good job of isolating motion. While you feel most movements nearby, they stay close to the source and don't travel very much throughout the mattress. For example, if your sleeping partner rolls over, you feel it in the lumbar, but not much at the head or foot of the bed. The motion dissipates quickly, too, so it's not as likely to disturb or wake you. Still, if motion isolation is a priority and you want to feel fewer movements overall, you might prefer the Allswell Hybrid.

This mattress has superb edge support. Firm 13-gauge pocket coils are built into the border of the mattress, providing extra support in that area. While the mattress is fairly easy to compress, the edges only compress a tiny bit more than the rest of the mattress, so you can sit or sleep nearby without feeling like you're going to slip off. This gives you more room to comfortably sleep on and makes it a bit easier to get in and out of bed.

The DreamCloud Classic Hybrid is very good at keeping you cool. Over the course of an eight-hour night, it transfers a lot of heat away from you, so you don't wake up overheated. That said, its cooling performance takes a little while to ramp up, leaving you somewhat warm at the beginning of the night. If you have trouble falling asleep in the heat or if you sleep hot in general, you might prefer something a bit more effective in this regard.

The cover isn't removable or machine-washable. It contains 71% polyester, 17% viscose, 4% barrier coating, and 4% filament poly. The manufacturer doesn't disclose what makes up the remaining 4%.

The edges are reinforced with 13-gauge pocket coils. These coils are thicker than the rest of the support layer, making them more difficult to compress and contributing to the mattress's outstanding edge support.

This mattress has three layers of foam above the pocket coils. A layer of polyfoam in the quilted top makes the mattress more resilient and responsive. The comfort layer is gel-infused memory foam, adding softness and relieving pressure. Below that, there's a polyfoam transition layer, which makes the mattress a bit bouncier and ensures you don't feel the individual springs in the support layer.

The DreamCloud Classic Hybrid uses mostly low-quality foam. Both the polyfoam layer in the quilted top and the memory foam comfort layer are less dense, low-quality foam, and you can expect them to sag and form impressions faster than higher-quality materials. The polyfoam transition layer is the exception; it's just dense enough to reach the standard for good quality.

If you want a mattress that'll resist sagging and forming indents for longer, consider the Boring Hybrid, which uses only high-quality foam.

There are 3.9" (9.8 cm) of foam above the pocket spring support system. The quilted top contains a 1.8" (4.5 cm) layer of polyfoam, and most people will sink through this layer completely. The memory foam comfort layer below is 1.1" (2.8 cm), adding a bit of softness. The polyfoam transition layer is 1" (2.5 cm). It makes the mattress a bit bouncier and helps distribute your weight evenly over the support layer.

Pocket springs make up the support layer. They're individually encased in fabric so you can compress them independently of one another, leading to better motion isolation and contouring. The soft, 15-gauge springs offer flexible support for your hips and shoulders, or lumbar, depending on your sleeping position. There are also 13-gauge pocket springs built into the edges, providing firmer support in this area.

The polyfoam in the quilted top is soft, compressing easily and creating a plush sleeping surface. Most people will sink through this layer and interact somewhat with the memory foam layer below. This layer is even softer than the upper layer, contributing to the plush feel of the mattress in general. The polyfoam transition layer is much firmer, offering support to the parts of your body that don't quite engage the spring layer below.

The pocket spring support layer is soft compared to that of most other hybrid and innerspring mattresses. It provides flexible support for the heaviest parts of your body, like the lumbar for back and stomach sleepers or the hips for side sleepers. Combined with the foam layers, which are even softer, it produces a medium-plush mattress.

The polyfoam in the quilted top is very resilient, or bouncy, improving responsiveness and making it easier to move around or shift sleeping positions. Below that, the memory foam in the upper comfort layer is much less resilient, though it's still quite bouncy compared to other memory foam layers. According to the manufacturer, it's gel-infused, which likely explains this difference. The transition layer is polyfoam, and while it's not quite as resilient as the quilted top, it has a lot of bounce, adding to the moderate bounciness of the mattress overall.

The spring layer has an average amount of bounciness compared to other hybrids. When you compress the coils, they push back enough to make moving around easy, but not so much that the mattress is excessively bouncy. The foam layers add a bit of bounciness as well, producing a moderately bouncy mattress overall.