Before I heared anything about lucid dreaming, I did set intentions for my dreams occasionally, which frequently worked out well. I didn't care about lucidity at all, as I didn't heard of it back then. Once I am in the intended scene, I remembered my intention and became lucid because of this.
Also, I succeeded with some WILD before, also without reading anything about it.
I remember having some random LD and false awakenings since I was 5, and I do a RC whenever I wake up since then, just to be sure. I didn't thought of controlling the dream, though.
I wonder, how many people actually come up with those things on their own, and how many actually start trying those things after they read about them.

I found it interesting to finally read about things you actually can do in dreams, like being creative, and I tried those. That is when I finally found to this forum.