Since you can't be physically with the family, you might have had this pleasant dream to give you a way to be back with them for the loss of your aunt, a more "togetherness" dream since the reality is anything but.

I think recurring themes about certain times/location are because we're still grappling with what happened there/then. There are bound to be symbols that only you can figure out since it's you creating the dream for yourself. I use to dream about the apartment I lived in 35-40 years ago, long after I had moved, and, in addition, there were always cockroaches in the dreams! I had them in that apartment for real but not like in the dream but they obviously were standing in for something. Therapy got the dreams to not be needed anymore, haven't dreamed about that apartment or cockroaches :-) in at least 10+ years.