In dreams an aspect of that unknown seeks recognition and integration by our conscious self. To understand these messages from our unconscious, Jung advocated amplifying the images - i.e. taking each symbol or image and expanding it in the light of personal associations and experiences. Another technique he popularized was that of active imagination. This is a process in which we move into a meditative space and allow the imagination to work with the dream. Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt psychology, believed that every element of a dream represented some unfinished emotional business from the past.
Dreams have many levels of meaning and serve a number of purposes.
Certainly Freud, Jung and Perls have made valuable contributions to furthering our understanding of the healing nature of dreams. Dreams in their compensatory role, heal by bringing the psyche into balance. Numen is the latin word meaning deity or presiding spirit. In such dreams one feels a presence of the sacred or divine. With numinous dreams you are aware of a powerful healing force that is operating from within.