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Lots of them.
My most common pastime is just sitting around thinking about things, and I'm sure quite a handful. I am the only person who's ever thought that particular thought.
Like thinking about dimensions, the first dimension is a point, the second dimension is a plane, the third dimension is a cube, right?
Then you cross another fourth dimension and that's time, but that fourth dimension could be thought of as a dot in time, that dot being the present moment.
That would mean that the fifth dimension is a plane of time, containing all of the possible past moments and all of the possible future moments for that dot as observed by the observer.
The sixth dimension is a cube of time, containing all of the possible paths and all of the possible futures for every observer within that closed time-like curve universe thing.
So then what's the seventh dimension? Well, that seventh dimension would be a dot, and that dot contains all of the potential cubes of time and the cubes of existence, in which the original universe is from the observer's viewpoint.
So then the eighth dimension would be a plane of all of the potential universes that the observer could have possibly existed in, and then the ninth dimension would be a cube of all of the potential planes of universes in which the observer could observe.
And the tenth dimension is all of that combined together into a single dot, all of the possible universes and all of the possible timelines that have anything to do with the observer who is observing them, folding like an Ouroboros's tail back into its own mouth.
Of course, there's probably a million ways to disprove this thought, and there's probably an untold number of ways why this thought does not congru with our rational understanding of the universe.
It is highly reliant upon there being some sort of symmetry between each of the levels of dimension in numeric order, or in some sort of observable order that can be laid out in a numerical format.
I am aware that it is a flawed thought, but it is a thought experiment and it is fun, and it's one that I came up with just thinking about how the first through fourth dimensions are currently laid out.
As soon as you start thinking about dimensions, your thoughts are no longer original cause you're piggy backing off other people's ideas and theories.
That's like saying that because there are only 12 notes in music that you can't write an original composition.
A 100% original composition, if you could invent entirely new notes. I know it seems impossible, but it can't be when every single thought had to have been thought for a first time by someone.