You have discovered one of the pillars of dream symbols: most of the characters in them are standing for a part of you. They act out their part in front of you so that you can see it more easily than if it were all jumbled together with rest of your life experience, personality and such.

Even when someone is acting their own part in a dream, the dream is usually exploring your feelings toward that person rather than how they really are. This bit can get highly confusing at times. I remember how my mum used to wake up in a huff for some offense my dad had given her in one of HER dreams. He could never understand those reactions    

Your dream gave you an amazing message. I hope you get many more from where that came from.

Thank you Pirbid for your help in getting to this point