Dreams And Spirit Animals?, spirits Options

well i dont really know if this is even in the right arena to post this but here i go,
the other night i had a dream involving a familiar fox spirit that i have grown to think is a guide of some sort. now the first time i had visited this spirit before, it had attacked me until i began to retaliate back during a shamanic exercise to find it. in my dream i encountered something new. the spirit of a larger than average lynx. they both wanted to devour me and in this dream. my house was part forrest and part my house the staircase and kitchen were whole and the living room area and everything else was converted into this forrest with reddish brown earth as the forrest floor.
so to escape i gave them my leg. which of course in the dream was grew back instantly. so i saw the lynx start eating my torn off leg and the fox wasn't in plain sight . i then ran up stairs to the seccond floor of the house and asked my two brothers and sister why they didn't help me and i woke up. any ideas as to what it means?
thanks in advance

If you haven't had much experience in shamanism yet, I'd say that these "spirit guides" may not be guides at all. A very common motif in shamanic visions involves the shaman being devoured by spirit/dreamworld beasts. Piece by piece they will tear your body apart until nothing remains. Not one bone, not one drop of blood. This isn't a gluttonous act though. In Australia, shamanic rites involve being consumed by a rainbow serpent who places quartz crystals throughout the shaman's body, making him or her stronger. In Siberian shamanic rituals, the initiate is often consumed by many spirits, but they grant him a new body. This sacrafice of one's old self also serves to bring power to the shaman. The spirits who feast upon your flesh are in your debt, and if you encounter them bringing down sickness onto another human, they will obey you if you command them to leave. This is a very simplified version, but basically, the spirits eat you, rebuild you with extra "shamanic parts," and will do your bidding to some extent because you have sated their hunger.

Hope this helps.

so what about spirit animals eating other spirit animals? because i am trying to figure out what my main totem is, and at first i got all sorts of animals, but there is a particularly deviant looking hawk or falcon (im not sure) that seems to consume them or drive them away in my dreams. two nights ago, it woke me up picking at me like i was a meal. it has even on a couple occasions scared my dog. i figure it is all metaphorical...but until i read this, i considered it more of a nuisance then a message.