About 40 years ago I read somewhere that Buddhists believed that the universe is a gigantic brain and we are figments of its imagination? Well this all came flooding back to me when recently I saw a large scale representation of the universe,I was shocked to see it looked like filaments of galaxies or rather just like neurons in a gigantic brain I got goosebumps and a shiver went up my spine. I am not superstitious its just a freaky coincident that caught me off guard.

 

That belief still exists in many different manifestations today. Google Gaia theory. Watch Avatar.