You taking any tests or anything in school that has you worried? :-) Interesting juxtaposition with the sun being hot and "up" versus the chute being down to earth. And you get saved with a burn mark.

I've always liked the idea that we were "souls" before and knew and chose which life and problems to have before we were born. I also like the idea that we can learn from everyone we meet and meet them expressly to learn something important for us from them, that all are our teachers.

If it were my dream, I'd feel good about having secured the angel as my guide/helper and feel "special" in some way and like I was safe and would get through okay, like they do in books. You know how sometimes you can be reading and get anxious over the problems a character has even though if you think about it, you know he'll be fine in the end, will grow up or develop a better character for all his trials and tribulations? That's what I would take from your dream if it were mine, that I'm going to be okay and should just keep doing the best I can and there will be help along the way. Interesting that what you don't remember is "later" like after you're born and "shouldn't" remember as it would wreck the whole point of being alive and having the experiences we experience.