Oh yes! I know this feeling well! All my life I have been making regular visits to the same place when I'm asleep. Each time I go there, I go to a different location within that place. The area would be approximately 100 square kilometres. I have been there so many times that I could draw a pretty accurate map of the place. It is a section of land on the coast. Sometimes I am on the coast itself, sometimes inland, sometimes in the small town on the coast, etc. Wherever I find myself, I know that it is in the same region because it has the same 'feel', and even though I can't see the whole region, I am aware of what is beyond my vision and it is very familiar.
Also, I am rarely myself when I visit - I am someone else, a person who lives there permanently. More specifically, I am 'within' the other person. However, I am usually within a different person every time I go there. After many years of these experiences, I am convinced that it is a real place in another dimension. I believe that part of my consciousness is projected there while I sleep, and that my consciousness enters another person temporarily, so that I experience whatever it is that they are experiencing.
Sometimes, in my waking life, I have felt 'a presence' within my own mind - and I suspect that it may be part of another person's consciousness projected into my mind while they are asleep and 'dreaming'. It withdraws as soon as I feel it though.
Starry eyes, I have also sometimes visited the sorts of places you have mentioned more than once, but not as often as the one I have described above. I agree that they could not exist on planet earth. They feel totally alien to me, and I believe that they are actually on other planets within our multiverse. Even if I was an expert artist, I would not be able to paint them - these places have colours and qualities that cannot be described or duplicated in our words or materials.
As for the characters in these 'dreams' not being controllable - I believe that is because they are not 'characters' - that they really do exist.
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