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You say you've lost your ability to lucid "since" the age of 15. Does this mean you've been at a complete loss for 8 solid years, or has it just slowly tapered off over that period of time between age 15 and now?
Have you ever actually tried out a regiment of dream journaling, reality checking, dream sign finding, WILDing and DILDing and WBTB, etc? It's a rough road but people who've been nonlucid all their lives garner results from it in time, so if you have prior experience you've already a step up on them... at least you know what lucidity feels like.
It makes logical sense to think that since you've "naturally" lost the ability to lucid that there is simply an unchangeable part of you that is resisting lucidity and that there's nothing you can do about it. Yet there are two possibilities:
1. There really is a subconscious part of you that's fighting your will to have a lucid dream (and you just have to work against the stubborn thing as best you can), or
2. The only reason you can't have a lucid dream is because you think you can't.
I'm not saying one or the other is correct - I honestly don't know and can't tell you - but think about it: if your problem is the first, it doesn't matter if you believe in yourself and your lucid ability at all, since there's an objective, unpersuadable roadblock in you that blocks your progress no matter what you think. Be optimistic or pessimistic, but the results and the progress will be the same. But if your situation is the second one - and a lot of lucid masters tend to emphasize that it is all about confidence - then it's in your best interest to believe you can, since that's the only way you'll ever actually be able to. In that case, no matter how much evidence you have in the past to prove that you'll probably fail tonight, it does not serve you at all to pay attention to it.
Since believing in yourself doesn't matter at all in the first example and can only help you in the second, there's no reason not to jump into lucid training with the complete and possibly even childish confidence that you can do it - make yourself lucid and control your dreams. It goes against all common sense and all standards of scientific empiricism, but... there you have it.
Not that it's easy to do that; I haven't had a lucid in over five years and I know similarly that it's best for me to forget about all that failure every night and pretend like I have no reason to not be able to have a lucid at will. But it's very very difficult for me to ignore the hundred of nonlucid nights tipping the scales against my favor.
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