is sleeping on your dreads good for them?

thats why you go straight to the last page

 

lol..im always afraid of missing some good pics or info or something. So I try to be well informed before chiming in on a topic trying no to repeat anyone. Instead it's just load of dramatized bullshit taking away from the effectiveness of the forum.

 

?? If a currently living and dreadlock-experiencing person has come to this forum and found a particular thread relevant to them, should they refrain from continuing it incase it bears no relevance to you also? This seems such a bizarre thing to say. Would you have all threads deleted once they have passed your time limit for relevance? Furthermore, by checking the date of the first post before you read the whole thread and then discover it's old (also kinda nonsensical), you can establish whether it has expired from relevance.

 

questionnnnnnnnnnn

to wear a headscarf or not?

i did last night, but im not sure if i wanna go without.. dreads are only like 30 hours old =/

 

Wouldn't the ruffling around on a pillow help them though?

 

There is a thing called etiquette. They aren't rules really and never set in stone but it's just something most people do out of courtesy or for a similar reason. When you respond to the OP poster of a two year old thread in a public forums it falls under this category. It's not something you can't do or will cause a problem. To be honest I am completely tired of seeing HHB say the opposite of SE after everyone of of his posts. It's not I care if people bump old threads, even though IMO its really against public forum etiquette. (Unless a reason permits but in this case it was answering a two year old question that has already been answered does not justify it for me. Perhaps a user reads a thread that's two years old and asks a specific question pertaining to that specific thread would give merit to bumping a really old really common thread.)

Like I say, my point was not to attack the poster for reviving this thread but rather every post made by HHB (then followed by SE) bumps all threads off-topic while they piss and moan. I would rather get on this board and read about people's experiences with dreadlocks and threads with titles interesting to me. I also like to find when I open these threads of interest I get just exactly that, not middle age men having a biggest dick contest over the internet...(SE I like you and totally see where you're coming from but I would just go about it a different way. But hey, that's me not you.)

And by mentioning the thing that annoys me most has now lumped me into that category of totally derailing the topic. Anyway, back to the old topic...

 

aye, but im a wimp and dont want them to all fall oot

 

lol silly...they're not gonna fall out whilst you're on your pillow creating friction which makes knots!

 

but im scareeeeeeedddd

blah. its been a stupidly bad day today

 

Ya big silly moo It'll be fine and you know it

 

When I backcombed mine for the first time I tried wearing something on my head to help with this. A) it rarely stayed on my head all night. B) I don't think it actually did anything except possible be counter-productive. I remember waking up several times when wearing a hat or something to bed I would wake one morning and dreads would be laying in the most unnatural positions. Not only that it encourages major congoing which meant more ripping which meant more loose hair which in the beginning are everyone's worst enemy. But ironically the longer I have dreads the less manicured I desire them and really love all the loose hair. I never stress about it because I in fact think it looks good. I think you should be at peace with them and sleep on them and lets them knot up how they want. You already know from experience they are going to unravel a lot before they begin to knot up. This is going to happen whether you sleep on them or not. So I don't sleeping on them creates anymore loose hair or unraveling than is already going to occur. If anything it helps it tighten back up quicker because of the increased movement.

 

alrighty =D


if it all falls out, i blame you lot =p

 

Lol..that's what I'm telling you. It's going to fall out no matter what you do...to some degree or another...just wait till you wash it...lol. Mine ceased to exist after washing them the first time.

 

yeah my old sets pretty much went when i washed them first time round