First, in my opinion, pretty much everything in MadMonkey's post was spot-on accurate: it really is the lack of access to memory and the lack of the waking-life self-awareness necessary to remember that things aren't right in a dream that prevents you from becoming lucid. Contrary to much of what you might read on the forums, normal awareness, logic, and consciousness, work just fine in a NLD; what is missing is waking-life self-awareness, and access to memory... so then:
There is a theory that sometimes when you go to a dream you have think of alot of thoughts that's where the memories come from like thinking i would go on a trip and they are not false memories(thinking with low awareness so you may not notice that those thoughts are wrong).
^^ this theory is, in my opinion, not correct. You don't have to think a lot of thoughts to generate memories, ever, and the false memories/histories created by your dreaming mind really have nothing to do with thoughts your DC "You" might be thinking at the time.
As for my own opinion on the topic: There really are no natural lucid dreamers. Or, if there are people who possess a lifelong ability to be lucid anytime they want, they are incredibly rare and special people. This is because being awake while you are asleep is not a natural condition, and you must learn how to do it -- how to include the presence of your waking-life self-awareness in a place where it was never meant, physically, to be (that place being the dream). As folks above have already said, quite well, natural LD'ers are probably people who came to learn to LD on their own, perhaps at a very early age, and the techniques they use to become lucid are so embedded in their psyche at this point that they don't really need to do much or even think about it to become lucid.
Finally, in case this is what you were looking for in the OP: You probably will not be able to learn how naturals become lucid because, being naturals, they literally do not know -- that's what makes them naturals! They really don't possess a secret shortcut to LD'ing; they are simply more experienced and comfortable with the state... even if a natural did manage to remember and explain the process he developed to become lucid easily, you would still need to spend time learning and practicing that process, and then gain the experience necessary to finally and easily know you are dreaming.
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