What are ape dreams about?

Before I start I just wanna say this is the first nightmare I've had in years.

Creatures that look like the bugs from starship troopers mixed with people (similar to Dead Space or The Thing) attack while im at a resort. They have an ape like intelligence and the entire time the human side of them is alive and yelling about how much pain they're in and saying sorry for killing people. I don't know what happens to me but my dream followed a girl that ran into an elevator with a mother and her child. The mother had a big scratch on her arm and slowly turned into one of the mosters and began to eat her baby. The girl runs out of the elevator and gets attacked by 3-5 of the monsters and then that's when I woke up.

I was being chased by two people for some reason and ended chased into a weird subway/sewer. Something happened and I was held captive. I was given some sort of chemical, but it had no affect on me. But there was a monkey (a regular monkey, but insanely smart and could speak) and it demanded that I share the substance with them 'or esle.' Seeing has I was already locked in handcuffs and chains and sat in a chair, I really saw no choice, but to obey. The monkey consumed the substance and disappeared as a being walked in. They were an ape person (think OG Planet of the ape.) I tried to resist and to escape, but my attempts didn't succeed and eventually I became suddenly and extraordinarily tired. I passed out and when I came to the aapeperson was giving me a manicure (?) The whole time I was thinking of ways to escape and noticed a file... BINGO. If I can get that file while they are distracted, I can grind my way out of the cuffs. I started to get hungry and as if on queue, the aapeperson said something along the lines of I'm getting something for me to eat, so I can get back to you.. Then, from behind a short wall I saw a massive, hairy hand with sharp claws appear. From behind the wall I saw a massive tail. I tried to say something, but the aapeperson had already turned around and was walking away. Scared put of my mind for qhat might be lurking around the corner I quickly get ahold of the file and start working my way out. The hand and tail let out a loud roar... the aapeperson said something about an "Ozaru" (Nice Dragon Ball reference in the middle of my dream, but that was literally what that thing was like.) After that the aapeperson started running away, I scurried into the nearest corner to continue my escape (in the back of my mind I knew it was somewhat futile due to there being no percievable exit near me.) The Ozaru turned to give chase to the aapeperson, but stopped when it turned around. It just stood there, while I tried to limit the noise I made the best that I could. I struggled to stay calm and keep breathing all without the beast noticing me and coming after me instead. Finally, the monster began to leave and... my dream ended. Waking up around 2:49 in the morning.... Feels like I definitely escaped somehow. Also the connection between the Ozaru and the monkey that ate my chemicals is a sure thing established, somehow, during my manicure.

I had a horrible nightmare where I was sitting up in my bed, and there was an orangutan crouched right behind the back board thing of my bed. It was dark with red eyes, almost like a demon but its posture and shape was definitely an orangutan or some sort of ape.
The animal was holding a knife, not a super large one, definitely smaller than a kitchen knife, coudve been a razor blade or something smaller like that.
Out of instinct, I ran upstairs, I felt like I needed to find a weapon to fight it or protect myself. I ran to my kitchen which looked so realistic to my real kitchen. I grabbed a rolling pin but then realized how light it was and wouldn’t make out to be a good weapon. So then I found a huge chopping knife for meat, charged at the orangutan that was already following me, and braced myself.

When I woke up I was sweating and my heart was racing. It felt so real, I felt like if I looked again I would see the demonic creature. I was too afraid to go back to sleep and it was 4 am, which meant the dream occured around 3 am which also scared me. I ended up staying up and not getting barely any sleep. (I went to bed at 1)

I am pretty sure I dreamt that because ive had so much stress at school, and very recently one of my favorite teachers did something passively racist, all the other students were making fun of a culture which happened to be mine, and she didn’t do anything to stop them basically.

Ive read so much on the news about asians getting slashed by people, and I think thats where the knife in my dream came from, I just wanna know why the hell it was an orangutan

so in the dream, I was going to a camp w/ my boy scout troop. what was weird was that the camp was kind of divided up into themed sections like an amusement park (the only sections I remember was a generic "space" theme and a giant-fruits-and-vegetables theme). There was also some rumors around camp that there was a bigfoot-like ape in the forests around the camp.

on the first night at the camp, I was goofing around after dark, and accidentally found out that I could run on all fours like how a gorilla does. I snuck out of the campsite to try out my new abilities, and one thing led to another, and I ended up chasing a box van down the highway like that (and was able to keep up with it, too)

the box van was shipping supplies to the camp, and I guess my gorilla-running made the driver think that I was the bigfoot-ape, so the next morning, everyone at camp was a little on edge. I decided to try meeting some new people, and ended up volunteering to help out one staff member, who happened to be a transgendered woman. She had been tasked with running some various DNA tests to see if the bigfoot-ape-monster was actually in the forests there, so I was helping her with that. She had a great sense of humor and me and her just really hit it off. We were having a great time talking to each other. then the dream ended somewhere around that point.

I find this dream kinda weird because (1.) I can't even run 100 feet without getting winded irl and (2.) I am pretty sure I'm a cisgendered male

I WAS LIKE IN THE JUNGLE WITH A LOT OF APES/MONKEYS AND WE WAS TRYNA SEE WHO WAS THE TALLEST WE WERE MEASURING OUR HEIGHTS AND STUFF BUT THERE WAS ALSO BLUE AND GREEN GORILLAS THAT CAME FROM SPACE AND THEY BEAT ME IN HEIGHT I WAS PISSED AND I GREW LIKE 5 INCHES IN A SECOND AND I MEASURED MYSELF AND I BEAT THEM GORILLA FUCKERS