A Dream Analysis

There's a reoccurring dream I've had four times now. It always starts the exact same, but ends differently. The main part of the dream goes as follows. I'm walking along a sidewalk by a speedway near my old neighborhood with homes on the left-hand side and businesses on the right. It's pitch black, and not a single car passes by. Where I'm walking to is unclear. On the opposite side of the speedway walks a skinny man dressed completely in black with a hoodie. He turns his head at me while still walking, and it's clear that he's wearing a white, latex mask. I suddenly become uneasy, because he doesn't look like someone I'd want to meet, especially at night, and he's aware of my presence. At this point, I decide it's best that I turn around and go back to my old house. I stop walking, and the strange man turns away and continues moving forward, to my relief. I stand there for a few seconds until the man is far off in the distance, then I turn around and walk back to my home. Suddenly, I hear footsteps from behind me. I look out the corner of my eye, and see that the man is following me and getting very close. My heart begins to pound, and I quicken my pace, wondering how he got behind me so fast when he was so far away from me on the other side of the street just a second ago. After a few moments of panic, I decide it's time to face this person and see how much danger I'm really in. I turn around to find... a young boy, probably middle school age, wearing a back-pack. Surprised, I say 'hi' to the boy, which he says in return, then walks ahead of me towards a small house with its door opened. An eerie blue light shimmers from the opening. Before going inside, the boy looks back at me and invites me in. I politely refuse, then continue on my way through the darkness. As I get further away from the boy's house, it quickly becomes apparent that the blue light is the only light source that can be seen, but I trudge onward. My destination is the house I had grown up in, so finding my way through the dark shouldn't be a problem. I take a left up a short hill, then a right across a street, knowing my house is just around the corner. After another hill, I'm sure I've found my home, but I soon realize that I'm wrong. I don't see my house anywhere, and there are no lights on in the entire neighborhood. Unsure of what to do and getting freaked out, I start running, going as fast as I can, and I would never stop till I found my house in the dark maze I was in. That's where the first dream in this series ends. The second dream goes the same way right up until the part where the boy invites me into his house. This time, I agree to go inside and get to know him. When I enter the house, I find that the blue light had been coming from a TV screen the whole time, with a Sonic the Hedgehog game being played by his younger brother. I'm instantly greeted by his mother, and his father is in the kitchen making popcorn. While the inside of the house isn't very spacious, it still looks cozy with a long, comfortable couch and a recliner in the living room. Without really talking much to the family, I sit down to play my favorite game from back in the day. I play against my new friend, and then with his brother. After a while, the family starts to seem a little too friendly, and an uneasy feeling creeps over me. Things get even more uneasy when the loving mother of the family brings out a plate with cigarettes piled on top, and passes them around to her kids. The kids are way below the legal smoking age, but the mother lights up their cigarettes for them anyway, and they begin smoking with delight. Even as an adult, smoking is something I've never been too fond of, but I take a cigarette anyway, as to not be rude. Once finished, I thank the family for their generosity, and get up to leave. The last thing I remember is the mother arranging candles on a table and lighting them. In the third dream, I enter the house and play Sonic the Hedgehog just like before, but the part with the cigarettes doesn't happen. However, the scene with the candles does, an