In the excerpt you can see how the protagonist struggles to fulfill the orders of the Sheikh. He calls out to "Mohammed" and desperately yells, "I can do no more; I am done!"
From this we can conclude that during this moment he was very Desperate
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the bluish lighting in the opening scene
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Both of their houses are isolated from the rest of society, one being literally isolated and another being metaphorically isolated
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When they experience it they are probably being focused on by most of the crowd or are just really nervous about what their doing in front of whoever. They just stop freak out and think about it to much, that causes them to most likely have stage freight