Because you seemed to solve your riddle in your OP, Flowofmysoul, I was going to pass on responding to it, but over the last day I kept finding myself thinking about this idea, so I might as well share those thoughts (if only to get them out of my own head).
First, this problem of "dreaming of everything you could dream of" would probably stand as a lofty goal to most LD'ers. To have enough lucid dreams to outpace your own imagination and creativity seems to imply that you must be lucid for a very, very long time... Even Watts, in his (eerily familiar) video assumed lifetimes of dream experience would pass before the spigot ran dry. Having concern about approaching that dry spigot would seem a miraculously good thing to most LD'ers, I think! You probably need not be concerned about this for a while, especially if you've decided to "go with the flow," and let your unconscious do more of the heavy lifting of dream creation -- which should I think add centuries of new experiences to your dreams, if not making opportunity for new experience effectively infinite.
All that said, I do want to do a little disagreeing as well. I personally don't think I will ever run out of things to dream, and I have been doing this for a very, very long time. I won't run out for a few reasons:
* I have a lot of faith in my imagination, and its ability to develop new adventures and desires that I wouldn't have imagined earlier. You can only run out of dreaming ideas if you only have a static set of goals, fantasies, expectations, etc.. Your mind is not static; trust it to always come up with new paths to explore, to draw new ideas from every new experience (even experiences had during those 75 year dreams). We are not confined to any set of ideas, unless we choose to be.
* I seek transcendental experience through LD'ing. As I think you already know, there is far more to experience in LD's than simply doing stuff. Use your LD'ing as a transcendental tool for exploring beyond your experiences, beyond your given goals and expectations. Let your dreams take you to places of consciousness that you simply cannot imagine.
* I allow my dreaming universe to grow, infinitely, on its own. I too spent years trying to create and control every aspect of my dreams, but lately I have been letting my dreaming mind give me schemata rather than spending/wasting time trying to do that which my unconscious was designed to do for me. This has worked quite nicely, has given me lots of novel LD'ing experience, and has not limited my ability to manipulate and control the schemata provided. For instance, instead of designing a new world, just move your self there with no more input than, say, "I am in a new world, what will I see?" and see what your dreaming mind (or the cosmos itself, if you believe in those things) has to offer.
* I have been LD'ing for almost 40 years, and haven't run out of ideas yet. Though it is mightily impressive, seven years of steady LD'ing (even if all your dreams are lucid) is not a very long time; you probably have a lot of new experiences ahead of you. Again, even Watts suggested lifetimes of dreaming would be necessary before the dreams run out. You might not have this problem for a very long time.
* I have found that there is nothing wrong with going back and re-exploring old dreams.
I also must add that I do not entirely agree with (or perhaps understand) Watts' assumption that you will one day simply dream your own waking-life existence. Yes, you will come to terms with playing God and finally settle into a different sort of creativity and managing of choices in dreams, but that would probably involve moving beyond your mundane physical existence (and its dreams) toward something new, and greater.
That's what I got. I guess the tl;dr version of this is simply this: I have a feeling that "dreaming of everything you could dream of" will never happen: there will always be something new to do, to imagine, to experience... if you allow it.
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