Dream #1: Animal Shadows 

Situation: In concrete reality, I've been seeing animal shadows lately. It has happened more often in the last 1-2 months. Basically, it's like an animal ghost. It's been happening for a while in my house, sometimes in the office and other places - but mostly in the house.

Sometimes it looks like a cat, a small dog, a big rat, or a leopard, but smaller than a cat. 

It's hard to distinguish what's going on, because it always seems to come from the edge of the view, somewhere off to the side. 
It always looks like a lurking shadow, in black. 

When I look to that side, it disappears. This can happen once every few days, or even once a day. 

I understand that animal energy symbolically represents my inner instincts linked to the animal kingdom. I've had many fears in the past, and most of them were related to animals. Having worked on this aspect for many years, I realize that new layers are opening up... 

Previously, for many years, I sometimes saw the whitish shadow of a human being in the house. 

I've lived in this house for 23-24 years, and have felt this for much of that time. 

It happened mainly between the open doors leading from one space to another. 

I always had the impression that it was an ancestor or a guide. It never frightened me. Even animal shadows don't scare me - they're just there! 

Lately, I've been seeing a blackish animal shadow.

Could this mean a regression of my inner strength to a more animal/instinctive force?

In both cases, I see them mostly as shadows, or rather at night in a darker/less well-lit area. 

It can appear otherwise in well-lit areas too, in both cases mainly in dark areas. 

I'd like to understand this and what I should do?

Dream #2: The vanishing partner

Dream: My wife Lydia (- is victimhood, + is spiritual rigor) and I are visiting a city in India. We are going into a shop, but we're on all fours (our hands and legs are on the ground like babies) and walking to pick up small items that are on small shelves on the floor level.

There is a tall Caucasian man who is pushing a buggy. 

He goes over Lydia, and Lydia has disappeared. 

I'm angry and wonder how he could have absorbed Lydia, and I strip him, pulling off his shirt and tugging at the zipper of his shorts to find Lydia.