So I have to ask...why?

WOW! So you're not joking, eh? Why did you cut them?

Yeah I had a friend who cut his dreads off because of a scalp problem but he kept his dreads just in case he wanted dreads again, he could just grow some hair, dread it up, and crochet his old long dreads back in!!

ok....I'm gonna re-post my response from DreadTribe (and add some more to answer specifics in this tribe lol)

I did! I do miss them, but man, it is so light now (they were so heavy!) and washing my hair is now so easy...it only takes like 2mins with a hair dryer (unlike the entire day of air-drying with dreads)...and combing...oh man...combing....scalp loves me at the moment...but I do miss them...

I have saved them though...It's actually amazing to see them properly for the first time (without mirrors etc)...so yeah, I can sew them back on one day...just needed a change and my scalp was really getting itchy (and washing was not fixing the problem...I think because my roots were matted-up right-up close to my scalp (I had dreaded to about 3/4 inch to scalp) washing really wasn't getting to a lot of my scalp and yeah dandruff was causing problems...

Having some issues today though...my hair is so used to dreads (almost three years) that now that it's fancy free, it's doing its own thing...my hair's about 4 inches long and kinda looks like Pat Benatar today! That will change...last time I had dreads and cut em off my hair did the same thing...was rather wild and unruly for a few days, til it settled and went normal lol....

yeah it does feel good running my fingers through my hair...but I could do that with dreads too...mine were quite neat....man they look good...it's weird I can now finally appreciate how stunning they are lol!