A pile of dirty dishes is read as unfinished business and tasks left for later. Dream books link it to the feeling of being behind, or to old conflicts never quite cleared up.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.