It was a long time ago but I think I had my first lucid during the first few days of browsing dreamviews. I was so obsessed with lucid dreaming and I'd already been keeping a dream journal (so I had very good dream recall), so it was almost like as soon as I realised that I could wake up in my dream, I did.

I still don't really have lucid dreams frequently, although I've definitely had hundreds I would say that I only have about one or two a week. I'm still working on making them last longer, which is my major weakness.

The technique I use is just doing a sort of reality check in waking life where I stop what I'm doing and imagine that I'm in a dream at that very moment. It makes me look critically about my surroundings and think about how a dream would feel different, or similar. And obviously you need to do something like try and hover to check that it's not a dream...

For me it works quite well; just being able to focus on your surroundings and experiences for a few seconds is very effective for inducing an LD when you do it in a dream.

Hope that helps!