It's winter.

I'm walking with a group of about 5 friends.

We get cold.

We stop at one of the nearest houses and ask if we can come inside, just to warm up.

The man at the door politely lets us in.

We all go inside and crowd around the fire.

Me and my guy friend in the group begin wandering around.

I feel bad vibes coming from the man that agreed to let us come inside and warm up.

Me and my guy friend enter into a room.

There's only a small lit candle in it, no electricity, bigger candle, lantern, or anything else.

We go to a big table in the center of the room.

We see figurines.

Four girls. One guy. The same as the numbers in our group.

They're sprawled on the table. Some have their heads chopped off, or a knife where their heart should be. We realize it's a plan for a murder, and a gory, painful murder, nonetheless. We realize the man's planning to murder us.

We head back into the main room, pale-faced and scared.

The murderer is in the room with my friends.

I do the most stupid thing one can do, and I yell "Murderer!" at him.

He looks at me smiling and starts chuckling. His smile is warm and charming while his eyes are stone cold. However, he does not deny it. He confesses he is indeed a murderer, but claims to have no intention of harming us.

One of the girls in the group asks the murderer if he can driver her home. He says it would be his pleasure. That sickens me.

Then my view switches.

I'm driving a car down the icy road in the winter, how easy it would be to run the car off the road.....

No! I must deliver her safely home. I decide I can always come back for her later, now that I know where she lives. And as for the others, if they are persistent on walking home, I can always just follow them. If I was ever given a good gift in life, it was my stealth.....

Then my view switches back to my own person.
I had been seeing through the eyes of the murder, I guess you could say I was in their head.

When he returns to his house, he asks us if we would like a ride. I politely decline. He insists we let him give us a ride, since it's so cold out. The other 2 girls say they would like a ride.

This is when I realize my guy friend and I must make an escape. Both the girls live nearby each other, which is in the way opposite direction of my house.

After I'm sure we won't be seen, I grab my guy friend's arm and make a run for it.

I'm running faster & faster. The street is quiet, all I can hear is my own panicked breaths.

When we're close to my house, we slow a little, and my guy friend looks as though he's going to cry, saying the murderer must know where we live and is going to kill us. We're inside my house, I feel safe, and I tell my guy friend we're going to be fine.

I smile at my guy friend and he smiles back, still looking terrified.

Then I wake up.

This dream really disturbed me, so any help would be much appreciated.

I'd like to know more about the murderer. Is he young? Attractive? You describe him as having a warm smile. What about his eyes. What color do you remember them being? What other characteristics would you attribute to him? Do you recall what he was wearing? If you did no know he was a killer, would you like him? And think about how you first got bad vibes. Why did this occur?

Sorry for all the questions, but I'd like more info because I find this dream fascinating.

He was young. I'd have to say late twenties-early thirties.
I think some would consider him attractive, but not really me so much. I suppose he was good looking, but his eyes ruined his face. They were just so cold, like ice, and they didn't really have a colour, they were black. I guess they could have been a brown, but I only saw them as black.
The lighting in the house was really dark. It was completely lit by candles, and small lanterns. No big lights or anything, so it was quite dark.
He was wearing black dress pants, and a dark red long sleeved shirt.
I would think he would be somebody who's strong, stubborn, and finds education (and intelligence) important.
I can't remember how I got the bad vibes, sometimes in real life and in my dreams, I pick up on feelings and vibes and all that easier than most people. I guess I'm just more in tune with whats around me.....

"I would think he would be somebody who's strong, stubborn, and finds education (and intelligence) important."

Is there someone you know that fits that description in reality and is in his/her late twenties who is fairly attractive but with cold eyes?

If not, it could be a manifestation of your shadow self, the one you hide from the world. Everyone has one. It's that part that kicks in when we feel threatened or need a dose of courage and/or strength.

Hmmm.
That's really interesting, actually.
Last night, (before I had this dream) we almost had a tornado, and I was thinking about how if I had to I would shelter my brother, even if it meant I didn't make it.

But I don't understand, why would this come out as a murderer in my dream? And why would I have such sinister thoughts (when I became him, in the dream)?

It could very well be your shadow. It's actually a part of you, and that could be why you were able to see through his eyes. Now that doesn't mean you are a murderer of course, it just means there is that side to you---cold, intelligent, stubborn, that has probably been neglected. When incorporated into the whole, you can have someone who is ambitious, smart, strong-willed, and able to get things done.

Are you a Star Trek fan? Check out the original series episode called The Enemy Within. Captain Kirk meets his shadow in some strange transporter malfunction.

I've developed a theory.
Okay, if that really is my "shadow", this dream might mean that subconsciously, my "shadow" is making it's way forward, and attempting to kill the other side (the nicer one that's more upfront) off, or push it back.
What do you think?

The operative word being "if." A lot of dream work is what's in the gut. If you feel it's not about your shadow, then it probably isn't. But if it were my dream, I might conclude that it was. Mainly because of the part where looking through the killer's eyes.

If you don't feel the dream is about your shadow, then perhaps the murderer is based on an actual person you know---not necessarily a killer, but someone with "killer instinct" maybe? Or someone who values intelligence over emotion?