Павел Пламенев - Вне смерти

In the mid‑19th century, the narrator’s great‑great‑great‑grandmother repeatedly dreamed of a bleak, empty world where light is void, food and water are poisonous, and the sky is covered by an iron network with iron birds flying above. A yellow king rules beyond the mountains, and people are so scarce that meeting another human is a rare, joyous event. The dream teaches unconditional love and forgiveness, portraying God as simple human understanding and love, and suggests that everything on earth except the human spirit is mere dirt. This haunting vision has been passed down as a scary bedtime story through generations, and the narrator wonders how such a dream could contain modern images like airplanes and nuclear war.