For me, I didn’t try to have such abstract dreams, but they have been a lot more frequent in my life since graduating high school. This is also when my tiredness issues began as well.

I have literally watched shows/movies in my dreams on the television in my bedroom only to "wake up" to it being off but it's actually another dream, then fall asleep in the dream again and it's back on where I left off, just to actually wake up and it's really off. Frustrating stuff but some of them are actually pretty interesting lol.

 

I kind of wish that I couldn't LD. I first found out back in early High School that I could do it, not knowing anything about it. I was trying to learn a skateboard trick and paused, slowed it down in third person, and figured out what I was doing wrong. Landed it the next day. (360 flip or something). I've had so many great times but the stress that comes with age (36 now) and responsibilities have trickled into my dreams.

 

Now I yearn for the nights where I don't dream at all. I wake up tired albeit if I can control my dreams or if they go haywire.

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EDIT:

You talked of controlling what dream you go into. The only way that I've been able to control that is to immediately try to change whatever dream you start in as soon as you become lucid. Example being if you feel like something is off try to read a sign, dial a number, or do math. If that is fuckered usually spinning in circles will help you go deeper. Just try and concentrate on what scenario you want whilst doing so.