“My heartbeat usually goes nuts when they measure it…”

Mine is also affected by measurement… differently under different circumstances.

But consider the glance. When someone is observing me, and I am aware of this, I am changed by this awareness. Perhaps I change when people are observing me and I am not aware of it. But one thing I am deeply aware of is how observation transforms all sorts of things… particularly human minds, and relationships…

State checking is a peculiar phenomenon. Asking someone to check or report their state causes a state-change. So the invitation to check or report on one’s state, effectively collapses one’s state into ‘state-checking’, thus producing a double-bind.