I live again, waking up as if from a long slumber, how curious indeed!
I started off the story with the expectation that the king would rise again, but then as he viewed the increasing success and change of his daughter and then her sun, I began to wonder if the True King was supposed to really wake up. This matches up with our current reality, where for the most part there are people who believe they will meet up with their passed loved ones, but only once they to have died. So platitudes of unknown veracity are spoken but we still must move forward in our current reality no matter what that truth is. So I see the kings dreaming as observation, it is the reality, and he is seeing it, but his awakening once again is never going to be, the dream lasts forever, we never decay because we are just a memory observing the future, but that;s okay to, because there is a future.