I've wanted them for a long time but kept making excuses, and kept worrying about what people would think, and then thought I was too old, and then one day I woke up, looked at may hair, which I'd been growing out long and realized that that was not the hair I wanted on my head. I wanted dreads, and by the gods, I was gonna have 'em!
the reason i wanted dreads was cuz i didn't want to conform with everyone else. and no one else at my school has dreads so i'm unique.
i like the naturalness of it first and foremost. I am lazy and hate having to waste time fixin my hair. They are low maintenance like me. Very little of it is a spiritual thing for me but i use them for visualization of roots and grounding. Letting the dreads touch the ground is easier than standing on my head like i used to ,,, gettin old sux