A king in a dream usually symbolizes a father or a father figure.
If you dream about a king, he can represent your memories of your father, or he can represent the type of father that you wished you had.
The king in your dream can symbolize the way you feel about yourself as a father, whether you are a father in real life, or whether you are just considering what kind of father you would be.
When dreaming about a king, it is important to make note of the king’s personality. Is the king wise? Benevolent? Just? Foolish? Cruel? Tyrannical?
That can tell you something about your attitudes toward your father and toward fatherhood.
A dream that a king is old and dying is a sign that you want to discard some of the old values and beliefs that you obtained from your family and find new ways of looking at things.
Sometimes, a king in a dream can represent an authority figure. The way the king treats you in the dream will say something about the way that you feel about authority.