The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
The augury here depends on the action and reaction; if you gave the commands and they were obeyed, you can expect some quick improvement in your life; but if your demands were ignored or refused, you will have to make an effort to avoid clashes with influential friends and/or associates.

If the commanding was done by someone else, the dream has the same significance, except that it applies to someone with whom you are closely involved rather than to yourself.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
To dream of commanding someone to do something represents a desire to get a grip on an aspect of your behavior and impulses. Perhaps you are being overly willful with an unbalanced egoic attachment to the outcome. Alternatively, this dream may be giving you the message to suit up, show up and take control of your life.

See Ten Commandments.

Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way by your associates for scorn shown your superiors.

To dream of giving a command, you will have some honor conferred upon you.

If this is done in a tyrannical or boastful way disappointments will follow.