Deconstructing Anxiety – Jason Silva
Channel: Transition21
Date: 2016-09-23

During an anxiety attack "the past—what the user brings to the experience—in overdetermining the present suddenly and inexorably conjures up a future that becomes identified with death."

Hyper-awareness of mortality is a major part of every negative anxiety experience; a user can feel it like a fist in the stomach. 

Death is no longer a deferrable abstraction, but an immanence. 

*In all of these cases, a drug experience "negatively prefigured" causes the user to be bound by the past, to deny the present, and to be swept into a projection of coming disaster.** David Lenson

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