As well as the symbolism of the dream, also consider how the dream made you feel.

Take a look at this answer for an explanation of why this is important.

As Vesuvius says, everything in the dream is about you, not about them, because in your reality you are creating your experience of them.

In physical reality, you never see anyone else as they really are, only as you interpret them to be. You rendezvous with the characteristics of them that you are attracting from them.

This is why as you change how you feel about them, they seem to change. It's not that they are changing but you are now interpreting your experience of them differently.

Now since you can think of dreams as pre-manifestations, everything that applies to physical-reality-creation also applies to dream-reality-creation.

If I were to guess, the symbolism of your dream suggests that you have unfinished business.

The fundamental principle of dream interpretation is this:

Everything about the dream is you.

So ask yourself: What do these things mean to me? Do they mean something beyond the actual images? What do they tell me about my own life?

Some dream interpretations are obvious. If you are giving an important speech the next day, and the night before you have dreams about being naked in a crowd and feeling embarrassed, it's pretty apparent that you are feeling anxiety about the speech, and vulnerable to criticism.

But other dreams, like yours, are not so easy to interpret without some detailed knowledge about you.

Dreams come from the visual, creative, holistic part of yourself, and can be very symbolic, as well as useful. The German organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz said that the ring structure of benzene came to him in a dream where a snake was eating its own tail.

I can only add to these excellent answers that sometimes, the answer is not readily forthcoming...why? Because the action in the dream has yet to manifest itself. You may not be ready to see what the dream means.

I had a dream of a large movie theater. I was responsible for a great party of people, going to see some movie there, and I kept losing members of the party. What did it mean? I did not know at the time...But later, I realized that I was so concentrated on what was going on in the audience that I never got to see the movie! In other words, I was not actually living my life, but observing it from the seats, so-to-speak. I needed to get my life out there and up on the screen. It took a while for me to realize this meaning. Also, my "outer life" was actually as mechanical as it was in the dream...I had four children, and spent a great deal of time helping them live THEIR lives, without living mine.

Dream interpretation is always best if you do it yourself! It means more when you figure it all out-- and it has a great effect on your subconscious.

Blessings, Jai