Back in 2nd grade when learning our solar and that the Universe was all there was I questioned to myself and in my minds eye that there was something beyond the Universe. Fifteen years latter I pictured a soup bowl theory of multiple universes. A year later I happened onto an article in the newspaper that explained how several scientist postulate that there were multiple universes. I was floored because what the article described was so close to what I had pictured. Similar pictures I've had since have showed up latter in scientist hypothesis.
Algebraic alphabet soup?
BTW, multiverse theories are commonplace, and go back to at least the Greeks.