This dream

It would be a nightmare to anyone else...but I've had it about four times now (changing slightly every time) and I just...really wish it would stop.

So I'm at a carnival (it kinda looks like the Del Mar Fair) and there's this guy who has on hundreds of totally disgusting, grotesque masks on. hundreds.

I know who is behind the masks but no one else around me does. I look around and they're all frightened or hating on him.

Telling me horrible things about this masked character who I thought i knew.
If you know me you'd say Im a beyond curious human being.
So...

I start taking off the masks, one by one by one and I keep staring into his eyes not the masks. which is why I was reluctant to do so. He himself looked scared so i focused in and just removed the masks, not caring if they came to life; tried to bite me; dripped blood on me; glared at me.

But the people around me were pulling me away from him, giving me shit; yelling at me for endangering them, throwing stones at my head.

But i just kept taking off the masks and staring into his eyes.

after what seemed like hours i got to the last mask and I was literally shaking
when i took it off that's exactly when I wake up.

in a cold sweat.