^^ I'm not sure there was anything specific, really.
Dreams had pretty much become my llfe, during wake and sleep, in those years, so overall focus and consistent attention/self-awareness was sort of inevitible for me... plus I was still young and strong enough to manage that attitude night after night. Also, my work during those years revolved around maintaining self-awareness all night, so, as work progressed, the LD's piled up as a matter of course (i.e., four separate REM periods in a night meant four LD's that night).
Here's an interesting thing that might be worth considering, though. I never, not even once, thought about how often I was lucid; it wasn't even a goal for me, much less something I ever worried about. Indeed, the first time I ever considered it was when answering a questionnaire for the Lucicity Institute many years after that special era. I often wonder if dreamers spent less time being concerned about LD counts or success, that perhaps those counts and success rates would rise.
Habba:
I'm still not concerned about a count, but these days, for a lot of reasons, it is much lower. Though I am slightly lucid in most of my dreams (probably residue from all those years of lucidity work), I only do "heavy lifting" LD work once a week these days, with a more focused month of lucidity once or twice a year.
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