What meaning could this dream have: family and friends became action figures in a

[Thera.D.]

small school bus? Last summer I went whitewater kayaking.
In my dream, all my friends and family sort of turned into action figures, and were sitting in two toy-sized yellow schoolbuses. I was normal, but I started to push the schoolbuses all around my strange world: deserts with dark brown and charcoal sand, areas with rivers that seemed to be indoors because of the dark, almost black sky. There was a narrow wooden bridge going up the river, not from bank to bank. It was built right above the rapids, almost right in the rapids. And I started to push the schoolbuses up the river on the bridge, when I remember seeing one of the buses being tossed down the river, and getting stuck in a huge hole (a dangerous part of the rapids). I was struggling to get it out (I got out of the hole with it while hanging on to an elephant..?), and once both were back on shore, all the action figures had drowned. They were plastic and couldn't move or escape, yet somehow I knew they were dead.
In the world, I was the only person there, aside from the people-action figures.

In the end, I thkni there was actually one that survived: it wasn't anyone I knew, but it was a "villian" action figure.

[Dragon]

All the people you saw symbolize feelings within you. Feelings you associate with these people.
Their drowning and dying means that your feelings are going through a time of transformation into some new form - a more developed form.
The villain doesn't die - what you perceive as bad will stay the same, whilst the good in your life will transform into something even better.
The rivers symbolize your feelings - go with them!