Stephen King Symbolic Language Of Dreams Analysis

In Mr. King’s essay, The Symbolic Language of Dreams, his process and techniques described is very similar to people on a clinical therapeutic spiritual self-discovering journey in which dreams are very much part of the process. His statement “I think that dreams are a way that people’s mind illustrate the nature of their problems. Or maybe even illustrate the answers to their problems in symbolic language.” is the key of understanding. Writers, especially Stephen King have this ability to transform this language into moving, scary stories that keep people wanting more.

Most experience writers have the gift of using life experiences as King’s analogy of the flipbook of personalities, events, and settings for their book. For example, Danielle McGee, a friend of mine, wrote a story about a
King may not agree with Freud about conscious and subconscious though his layers of the ocean analogy are very much the inner workings of both concepts. It is similar to my metaphor that our brain is a large filing cabinet filled with many memories that it might take a dream to make the connection. King may not have known he was asking the creative department archaeologist problem solver when stating, “I’ve got to have an idea” for the completion of It when he received his answer from a dream.

Dreaming is very much part of the creative process by being in a trace state is associated with innovative juices of original ideas of all disciplines. Science fiction writers like Orson Scott Card with his book Enders game for instance with Ender playing a physiological mind game on what we would now call a tablet, the tricorder in Star Trek is the precursor to the mobile phone all three are products forming ideas from creative daydreaming.

King never stated that dreams were answers to his problems, just answers to how, what and why his characters take the direction in a story. Dreams are part of his writing in show how he connects events, objects and possibility current