I still dont understand. From my experience and knowledge, dreams are random fabrications that are created by your mind and occasionally include your personal memories and emotions as 'ingredients'. You stated in your first post that you have no trouble translating your dreams. I find this puzzling, because dreams don't need any translating. They do not have purpose or intentions. What you have described as confusion when you woke up is 100% normal. This is how everyone experiences dreaming, and I find it odd that this is your first time going through this.

Unless of course you are assuming that your mind fabricated some parts of the dream for a specific reason, which is possible, for example fear of illness, then there you go, your answer is "you are afraid of getting sick". However both your posts suggest something more specific for the whole dream, which I personally believe is weird that you need an explanation for your dreams. Unless of course you are religious or a believer in paranormal foreshadowing of events in dreams. If that is the case, I cannot help you. lol.