Dreaming

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As a kid I used to have vivid dreams. However, now I almost never remember a dream. Why is that? Is there a way to "make" your dreams rememberable or more vivid? If so how?

It's called a Lucid dream, where dreams are memorable and vivid. And you are conscious.

One possibility is that during childhood, your brain is still relatively young so it's self-aware parts are still active during REM sleep. As the child grows, the parts get automatically turned off and you can't get vivid dreams.

In order to have vivid dreams again, there are 2 methods.
FIRST METHOD

Spoiler below!

Get a dream journal. As you go to sleep, put your journal and pen next to you. After you have woken up, you still can partially remember your dreams. Focus on the journal and write what ever you can. Then you'll notice a pattern and as you get aware of this, the possibilities of you getting a vivid dream multiplies.

SECOND METHOD

Spoiler below!

Throughout the day whilst being wide awake, keep asking yourself is this a dream and then look at something. Let it be your phone or clock. If it's normal, you're not dreaming. But in a dream, things tend to get twisted, so when this becomes a habit, in the dream you can get awake.

The human mind tends to awaken it self when it's self-aware parts are active. When you have control in the dream, the mind likes to awaken it self. If this happens, look to the bottom and spin.

Imagine that somehow (eg with advanced technology) when sleeping we could "trick" or "help" our brains create visuals thus transforming our night sleep into a cinema playing movies. How cool would be that? Free dreams/movies by your brain that you can also remember. Of course then maybe no one would want to wake up because reality would be boring.

You could try to input a sensor of some sorts to your brain (specifically your visual cortex) and decipher that data to a format in which the film can be played, but it probably won't work.