What if we’re living in a brain cell of another creature?

When I was little the ending of men in black really stood out to me.

What if our universe is just a spec of dust floating around someone’s living room

What if the universe is not just in another brain but the brain is inside our universe. Like a loop, you know when you keep on zooming in on a mandelbrot fractal you eventually end up starting at the same place or seeing the same mandelbrot structure.

When I was younger I was convinced that atoms were just tiny solar systems and whatever they made was just a small part of the universe. I thought it would be like that in both directions, smaller and larger, for infinity. I think I had just started smoking weed around that age so…

Not my opinion just putting it out there but thats why many ancient religions and texts have said that we live within the mind of God.

1. Vedic and Upanishadic Texts (Hinduism)
• The Upanishads, part of ancient Hindu scriptures, often describe the universe as arising from the Brahman, the ultimate reality or cosmic consciousness.
• The Māṇḍūkya Upanishad and Chāndogya Upanishad teach that the material world and individual selves are manifestations or illusions (Maya) within the mind of Brahman. The idea that the world is “God’s dream” is a metaphor often used in Vedantic thought.

2. Hermeticism
• The Hermetic texts from ancient Egypt and Greece, such as the Corpus Hermeticum, speak of the universe as being the “thought” or “mind” of the Divine.
• Hermetic philosophy teaches that “The All is Mind,” implying that everything exists within the mental construct of the divine being.

3. Neoplatonism (Plotinus)
• In Neoplatonic philosophy, Plotinus (3rd century CE) proposed that all reality emanates from a single source, called “The One,” which is akin to pure mind or consciousness. The material world is seen as an overflow or manifestation of this divine intellect.

4. Early Christian Mysticism
• Some early Christian thinkers, such as Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, considered the universe as a reflection of God’s thoughts or will.
• In the Gospel of John (1:1–3), “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” suggests creation originates in divine consciousness.

5. Islamic Sufism
• Sufi mystics, such as Ibn Arabi, describe the world as a manifestation of God’s imagination or thought. Ibn Arabi refers to creation as Al-Wujud al-Mutlaq (Absolute Being), where all things exist within God’s encompassing consciousness.

6. Kabbalistic Judaism
• In Kabbalah, the concept of Ein Sof (the infinite) suggests that creation is an emanation from God’s infinite being. Some interpretations suggest that the physical world is like a “dream” or “thought” within the divine mind.

7. Indigenous and Mystical Traditions
• Many indigenous spiritual traditions conceive of the world as part of a great spiritual mind or cosmic consciousness, emphasizing the unity of all creation as part of a divine whole.

This idea resonates with modern philosophical and scientific theories, such as panpsychism (the belief that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the universe) and simulation theories, which sometimes draw comparisons to these ancient beliefs.

I bet our universe is inside the lonely brain cell in an orange cat

What if that creature is also us?

Hyper-toroid.

We loop back around, right back inside ourselves.

the known universe is really just the subatomic particles of an incomprehensibly large creatures lung. What we perceiveas the universe expanding is simply breathing.

I’m starting to think more a long these lines.

Am I aware of the cells in my fingers? No.

Are they there? Yes.

Are my cells aware they’re part of a bigger organism? I don’t know but perhaps they know their neighbouring cell as Dave and they’re good friends in the bio system that is my body.

So from that standpoint, could I be a cell in a bigger organism? Maybe… and maybe I’m just a cell in it.

And about now I make the Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, mind blown sound “Whoa….!”

As above, so below eh?

Imagine that it’s not the universe expanding but actually their consciousness 🤯

There was a Simpsons intro segment that started (iirc) in Homer’s brain and panned back further and further eventually showing the solar system and the galaxy and eventually the universe and as it kept panning it ended up coming out of Homer’s head again. It stuck out to me because I had been messing around with that concept in my mind for a few years before The Simpsons did it and this was a visual recreation of the ideas I was having that reality is like a fractal elkin bottle, a sphere of repeating loops that loops back in on itself, the micro and the macro are just different sized versions of the same things, reality creates itself.

I wouldn’t say I *believe* anything 100%, but the closest thing I have to a belief is the idea that consciousness itself is the thing people call God and it permeates and encompasses everything; “reality” is sort of a side effect of that consciousness’s self awareness as it examines itself.

I’ve always liked this idea, coupled with the idea of infinite, infinite outwards and infinite inwards

I had this thought awhile ago while watching a slowmo, up close video of a lighter igniting. Looked like fireworks bursting, or stars/galaxies being formed. And I thought, what if that’s whats happening between our synapses when they fire? Each nanosecond of electrical firing igniting entire individual Big Bangs between every synapse involved in a single thought. And time is relative, so while the firing may be a nanosecond, on its own scale perhaps millions or billions of years are passing. Every thought. Every synapse. Creating millions of parallel universes inside of our own heads. In everyone’s head. In every living thing’s head? In every living thing’s head throughout our universe and all of those billions of others? 

Maybe every one of us carries our very own multiverse within ourselves

That creature has some serious mental illness in the earths realm of its brain

I’ve always felt like if you could zoom out and observe the universe, at some point it would “loop back over” and then we would actually be looking at the same thing as if we were looking through a microscope zooming in as much as possible. That’s what this looks like.

It’s fascinating to think about the eerie resemblance between a neuron and the structure of the universe. This isn’t just a visual coincidence, it might point to something deeper. Both systems, a single neuron in the brain and the observable universe, are vast networks of interconnected nodes. Neurons transmit electrical signals, and the universe, on a cosmic scale, is a web of galaxies with energy and matter flowing along massive filaments. The similarity in structure is striking, almost like they’re following the same fundamental design principles. Physicists and cosmologists studying the large-scale structure of the universe have observed that the way galaxies cluster and form massive web-like patterns is mathematically similar to how neurons in the brain self-organize. Even computational simulations of the universe’s growth look like neural networks under a microscope. What’s mind-boggling is that on vastly different scales—microscopic vs. cosmic—nature seems to echo the same blueprint.

Now, think about the implications. If neurons control thoughts and consciousness, what if the universe itself is a giant neural network? Could the cosmos be conscious in some way we can’t comprehend? It’s a wild but intriguing leap to imagine that we might be living inside a “cosmic brain,” where galaxies are neurons in a larger, incomprehensible system. Add to this the idea from quantum mechanics that everything is interconnected (like entanglement), and it feels like we might be onto something. Maybe we’re not just part of the universe; maybe we’re part of its “thoughts.” This theory, while speculative, makes you wonder: What if our universe is just one neuron in an even bigger structure? Maybe reality itself is layered, with systems inside systems, all echoing the same patterns. It’s a perspective that forces us to rethink what it means to exist—and whether the universe might be “thinking” about us just as much as we’re thinking about it.

I’ve long thought that the universe exists with a form of intelligence that’s currently beyond our understanding.