I suppose that it didn't really evolve. It simply branched into new things.

When I first started out, (14,15yrs old) it was really just about having fun and escaping the real world. I was just getting out of middle school and I didn't exactly have the easiest childhood or the most friends at the time. That is still one of the reasons that I practice lucid dreaming today. It's fun and rewarding. I get to escape the real world (Because the real world can suck sometimes.) and enjoy a different world. One where I wasn't a kid who got pushed around and could feel powerful and important.

I also used it as a source of creativity and ideas for art. Today, a good chunk of the artwork I produce has some connection to lucid dreams.

I later became interested in dream guides and wanted to learn more about them. (Probably because my own dream guide was such a persistent figure in my dreams.) I have since been collecting information and learning new things about them. I even started my own page on the wiki for dream guides. [/shameless advertising]

I wanted to be like one of the old lucid dreamers that practiced back in the 70's and 80's. The sense of discovery and challenge they must have had. They didn't have a dreamviews wiki to help them. They just had a notebook, a bed and an idea, and they rolled with it. I would like to be a part of that discovery, and I'd like to believe that I didn't come too late to discover something new that nobody knows much about.

I have since also taken an interest in exploring written autosuggestion. This is a relatively new project so I don't have much to say for it right now.

As I've gotten more advanced, It's become something of an expertise of mine. (I'm a long way from being a lucid dreaming guru.) But I enjoy the feeling of being skilled at something and being able to help and teach others how to do it.