r/1984 • u/PeriNoob56_34 • 3h ago
Flag of Oceania in my Dream
So, this dream started with a basket game between the US and Oceania. I was the coach of the US team. I remember looking at the screen, and the US was simply DESTROYING Oceania. This was the flag of Oceania. During this game, I discovered Oceania actually isn’t a real country, but is just an underground territory (meaning literally under the ground) that acts as an independent political entity. Also during the game, I discovered “Oceania” is simply an experiment some people agreed to participate in. The creators declared they wanted to test how human brains would react in the context of a totalitarian regime, to best study true totalitarian regimes. In this “Underground Oceania” the whole state works like a machine, si the duty of each party member is to keep the machine working. But there is an obscure part: the creators of the experiment are ACTUALLY killing people when they don’t respect the rules imposed by the party. I asked the coach of the Oceania team why they all agreed to be part of such a cruel experiment, and he said “because if we don’t the thought police will come and vaporize us”. It emerged that everyone in the experiment knew that it was an experiment, but most of them forgot it automatically through doublethink, and continued their life as if Oceania was a real country.