Can you truly dream about a place with know darkness. You would think Winston did but in actuality he did not. Winston dreamed that O'Brien told him he would meet him in the place where there is no darkness. This caused him to trust O'Brien, even though the real living O'Brien did not say these exact words at the time. Winston dream made him gain so much faith in a man that later on in the book would torture him and make him give up his love. The place where there is no darkness is where people worst nightmares came to life. For instance, Winston fear of rats. He would do whatever it took for O'Brien not to release the rats on his face to kill him. In the moment of all of his fear Winston told on Julia. Julia and Winston made a vow that they would not tell on each other. Julia was the first to break the vow and nonmatter what they did to Winston he did not tell. Until the rats became present, they used them against him to make him tell on Julia.
In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, Winston dreams portrayed a lot of his real life experience. He dreamed of being in the Golden country with Julia. Winston also had his incredible sad dream about his sister and his mother. He knew that he was the reason that they had perished. Then the place with know darkness, allowed Winston to notice his worst nightmare. He would do whatever it took not to have to face his fears. Orwell uses the dream, a recurrent motif, as a mechanism to reveal background, develop character, and foreshadow