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Yes Anakin wanted the power to keep Padme from dying. But the dreams are exactly why. If he hadn’t had any dreams and thought everything was fine and then suddenly there complications during childbirth and Padme died, then Anakin would’ve been inconsolable but also there was no way he could’ve done anything. And that would make a huge difference. He’s lost people in war but when he does lose soldiers there was nothing to prevent each death. Padme’s death would’ve been hard but if she was gone and with no warning, he would’ve been able to figure out how to move on eventually. The reason that Anakin struggles so much to get over Shmi’s death isn’t because Anakin is overly attached and has no clue how to let go. It’s because he had the ability and foreknowledge to save her and did nothing. He’s drowning in that guilt and it shapes his actions moving forward.

So yes, he starts having visions of Padme dying and thinks “this is just like what happened to mom. The Force is giving me another premonition and I CANNOT IGNORE IT THIS TIME!” He probably even thinks the Force wants him to save Padme. That was the whole point and of him having visions of Shmi was to say ‘hey come save this innocent woman!’ He had no idea that it's different with Padme and was Palpatine who was engineering the dreams and not the Force itself giving him an opportunity to right a previous wrong. He thinks he's getting another chance to save a loved one and he shouldn’t sit around this time. This time he knew he could stop her death and that’s what Anakin was determined to do.

If Anakin hadn’t had those visions of Shmi. If he hadn’t known and found out after the fact that she was dead, he would’ve felt guilty but not to the same level because how could he have known? If Anakin had never had those visions, then he would’ve passed off his dreams of Padme as his own fears and he wouldn’t have done anything. Or at least not taken them so seriously.

Telling Palpatine about what happened to Shmi. The guilt. The knowledge that he could have saved her. That if he had just acted he would’ve been there in time. It’s the exact reason that Palpatine chose to give Anakin those visions. To put Anakin in an exact scenario that would push Anakin to save Padme whatever the cost.

And Yoda’s dismissal without any more information was very callous. Yoda is like who is dying in these visions. Someone you know or yourself? When Anakin says someone else, Yoda is all then death is inevitable. He doesn’t ask for details. He doesn’t try to figure out if the circumstances are something that they could help with. Just tells Anakin that there’s no hope. When Anakin knows there must be a way to prevent it because there was a way to prevent Shmi from dying. And the fact that Yoda asks about who is dying. Does that mean that if Anakin saw a vision of his own death that Yoda would’ve had different advice? Would Yoda have asked for more details and tried to see if Anakin’s death could be prevented but also explain that sometimes trying to stop the future is what creates the very situation that you’re trying to avoid? Is Yoda’s advice of letting go come because it’s someone Anakin knows? Is Yoda just trying so hard to prove the importance of no attachment that that philosophy becomes more important than anything else? As a Jedi it’s so important to not have attachment that trying to save another person’s life actually becomes a bad thing because if you’re fighting to save a life, then you’re attached. So to prove how unattached you are, you need to stand by and watch a loved one die. In that moment Yoda was ironically, so attached to the ‘no attachment philosophy’ that he didn’t care about saving an innocent life. If Yoda had tried to do something. If he’d tried to help Anakin figure out if it was even possible to save Padme, things would’ve gone completely differently. Because Anakin would’ve felt supported by others. If he’d had the support of others then it wouldn’t just be Palpatine for him to lean on. Anakin would’ve preferred to stay on the Jedi’s side. But the Jedi weren’t on his side. They were willing to let atrocities happen in pursuit of proving themselves as unattached. And does Yoda give that advise specifically because it's Anakin asking? All the Jedi are constantly concerned about Anakin and his attachments. So in doing this super strong push to make him focus on not having attachments, are they creating the problem? Instead of just letting him have normal attachments, they are so strongly pushing that he have none that it makes him cling harder to what he currently has!

So Anakin would never dismiss his visions as dreams, precisely because he knows that they are not dreams.

And for people who say, well then he should have just asked Obi-Wan for help. Again, when Anakin told Obi-Wan that he was having visions of his mom, Obi-Wan is the one who told Anakin that they were just dreams and that Anakin was being too emotional and talked Anakin out of doing anything about them. Which means that Obi-Wan probably would have given the exact same advise this time. Anakin not telling Obi-Wan wasn't Anakin being dumb. It was Anakin having gone through the exact same scenario and knowing that Obi-Wan wouldn't help.