In Ethereal Torment, inhabitants exist in what they perceive as their primary reality, living out their lives like a dream. However, when they pass away, they awaken to the true reality of the afterlife, discovering that it's just as fraught with suffering and pain as their previous existence.
In this world, individuals might carry the burden of their actions and emotions from their dream-life into the afterlife, leading to a continuous cycle of torment and redemption. Perhaps, the afterlife is shaped by the unresolved issues and traumas from their dream-life, creating an eternal struggle to find peace and redemption.
Ethereal Torment could be a world that delves into themes of existentialism, the nature of reality, and the consequences of one's actions. It challenges the idea of a blissful afterlife and explores the notion of facing the consequences of one's life choices even after death. The residents of Ethereal Torment must grapple with their own inner demons and find a way to break free from the cycle of suffering to attain true salvation.
But in this poetry, the character lives even his dreamlife with pain and suffering, making him suffer more and more, displaying that even his dreams are pure depression and his life is not pink at all, more likely he could describe his life with shades of dark gray and black that is darker and darker after every bad thing that happened in his life. All that emptiness refers to his heart immune system because his depressing is to overwhelming and he lies to himself that he he don't feel a thing. He just wanna feel something good, he wants a shade of color in his life, because he knows that not even his afterlife, nor this life will be better