I also love your interpretation of this dream. That it might be a past life remembered was my first reaction, too. I say that because as a child I used to dream of soldiers coming to my house, and trying to decide where I could hide. I was so small that I used to think I would hide in the dresser drawers. I also remember dreams of bodies stacked up outside. Now, we didn't have a TV then, so I have no idea where those images could have come from except a past-life remembrance.