Humans use technology to create a machine that puts their bodies “dead” while they live as a Na’vi human hybrid, Avatar. Humans are put to sleep for “Five years, nine months, and twenty-two days,” (Cameron 5:53) to become a hybrid Avatar. This shows the length to which humans will lose six years of their life in order to have the ability of becoming an Avatar. The machine allows "the settler [to] mimic, appropriate, and desire the authority of the indigene" (Lawson 1215). The machine allows humans to mimic the authenticity of the indigene with being able to live on Pandora, a planet that does not allow humans to breathe. Humans also create masks that allow them to breathe without becoming part avatar which shows how much effort that humans