Carbon dioxide helps blood move throughout your body. So when your body doesn't have enough Co2, blood flows slower. In order to get blood flowing faster, your heart needs to beat faster and do more work, and irregular heart beat is the result. Hyperventilation also causes many other symptoms in those with anxiety.
Outline of science fiction. Science fiction â a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a literature of ideas.
Unless otherwise cited, this information comes from a wikipedia article on characteristics of dystopian fiction (see the article here). Dystopian fiction is part of the Speculative Fiction genre, and could encompass a number of subgenres depending on the elements of the story (Dystopia, 2012; De Vos, 2011).