I will attempt to illustrate the psychological processes involved in creativity through the analysis of the creation of a poem.

As the mirror image of dreaming, creativity is one of the highest, if not the highest, kind of adaptive mental process. It is not regressive, irrational, a concrete type of thinking, or even a radically altered state of consciousness. The creator, in full consciousness, purposefully attempts to produce the most socially valuable products possible and he uses the highest mental function he possesses.

In order to show how the mirror-image process functions, its specific forms and operations, I shall examine further the creation of “In Monument Valley.”

Tells the story of the creation of “In Monument Valley”—the psychological story—to the extent that such a story can be told.

Because of a serendipitous finding from my research, I virtually was driven to begin to acknowledge a similarity between artistic and scientific creativity.

In the course of this narrative I shall provide a picture of the subjective side of creative thinking and the manner in which the creative process, for both the artist and the scientist as well as other types of creators, is the mirror image of the dream.