Dreams are not always 100 percent useful. They are very symbolic and mix up memory, wishful thinking and information in random proportions.
One thing to pay attention to is how you FEEL in a dream, but most people only remember the visuals, which are the most misleading parts. But how you feel tells you more about hwt ait really is than what it looks like.
Like, loose tea leaves are also small and black, so it’s not a stretch that your subconscious says “oh, they remind me of ants” without that being very helpful for daily inspiration, it’s just the subconscious thinking things through.
So I would say, take a look at our dream interpretations thread in the Divination, Dreamwork & Prophecy category, and meditative on the dreams examining each piece to draw out if it had a deeper meaning, if it was memory processing or problem solving.