Same age as me! I went about ten years or so with no lucid dream, and then I had two last week. Hopefully it won't take ten more years for my next two. One of them was accidental, probably triggered by fitful sleep in a shared hotel room. The other was deliberate, achieved by sleeping as late as possible on a Saturday morning and letting myself fall in and out of sleep. I know reality checks are a big deal, but they never seem to work for me. I just have to notice something really odd.