Article note: A variation of this trick will be used in some show for a 2020s version of the "Fiddling the stoplights" scene from Hackers.
It is pretty clever.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
— Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbert’s Dune