It seems that most people, once in their astral body, tend to explore. I used to do that a lot in the early 2010s. I would fly around and inside Earth and meet people, and beings. I experienced quite a lot with healing myself and others. I would also practice Qi Gong while out of body.
Some interesting experiences happened when I decided to ask to go where I needed to go, and later just meditate from the OBE state without any intention. It was difficult at times when my astral body started moving very fast, going through places where beings wanted to interact and tunnels of "destroying" and feeling the effects of it kinesthetically in my body. Focusing on my center instead of my body helped, but not always. After that, it was mostly darkness and nothingness. There was no body anymore, just silence.
Nowadays, I still occasionally become conscious in OBE to clean stuff attached to my body or when a non-welcome mental body dreamer enters my space.
I let go of wanting to control my dreams since it messes up with communication from my Dreamer/Inner self.
For all conscious dreamers out there it's a good practice to always call out all beings who speak to you (telepathically or with their voice). You would be surprised. I typically say out loud: "Show me your True Self" 3 times. 99% is illusions and messing up with your mind, masquerading as an ascended master or a loved one. Only mental astral bodies speak (either human dead or alive). Soul astral bodies do not speak at all (neither telepathically), those are quite rare and you will know the difference if you meet one.