Is dream vividness affected by how well you can remember your dreams, or the other way around?

[strago]

Up until early October, my dreams were way more vivid, and I had a lucid dream every now and then, and since then they have been very un-vivid. I've almost always been just remembering the last part of the dreams, and I didn't have another lucid dream until last night, thanks to 5 HTP (before bed), Fish Oil, five tablets both before bed and at WBTB, Galantamine (WBTB), and Choline (WBTB). (Fish Oil does a *very* good job at increasing serotonin, which makes your mind awake for a few hours when you start WBTB, and then when it wears off three hours later, then your mind is not so awake.) In my lucid dreams, I always know I'm dreaming from the start, and in all my past lucid dreams, the dreams stayed vivid, and memory of them stayed very good, while in this one it started out as un-vivid as my regular dreams, I had to say maximum clarity to basically make the sun come up, and as the dream went on, memory of it was greatly decreasing compared to my past lucid dreams, so I only remembered the main stuff, like flying, testing out reality tests, and trying to convince a few people that they were dreaming. Even while the lucid dream was going on, I noticed my memory recall of it was worse than past lucid dreams!! I'm guessing that once I can get my normal dreams to be more vivid, then my memory recall will be better, or the other way around.

[xxPhoebusxx]

I noticed when I first started getting back into dreams 2 weeks ago. They weren't very vivid. But the vividness has been steadily increasing. Instead of trying to make your dream more vivid so sharply. Imagine a dial and turn it slowly all the way to max. Really noticing the increase for every little bit you move the dial

[dolphin]

The more aware you are during a dream, the more vivid it is. When you're remembering a dream, you're recalling what you were aware of. So, the more vivid the dream is, the easier it is to recall awareness from it because there's more to remember.

[FryingMan]

Awareness/attention, memory, and dream vividness are all interrelated. If you have developed a style of living where you pay active attention to yourself and your experiences, and practice recalling them frequently, then your daily experiences will themselves be vivid. If you additionally critically reflect upon your experiences while you have them (with the particular emphasis on determining your state, awake or dreaming), this will aid becoming lucid in dreams more often. Once you are lucid and attentive to your experiences while awake on an increasing and regular basis, your dreams will follow suit with proper intent and become vivid and lucid on a much more regular basis. This takes time, effort, dedication, and unceasing practice. You're after all trying to transform your brain and build new neural pathways, and that doesn't happen overnight. So stick with it! I can also attest to the fact that you don't need supplements for vivid dreams. I'd suggest at most a solid multivitamin to make sure you're not deficient on any key nutrients related to brain health, neural activity, and memory.