One of the major scenes that really causes the viewer to feel as Jake does is the scene in which he first wakes up in his avatar body. Although the doctors in the scene try and make sure that he is doing fine, Jake chooses to run off and disobey all of their requests for his safety. He shows no regard for what could happen to him, but instead take advantage of his newfound ability to walk again. While Jake is still in the hospital, the movie uses techniques to make the viewer feel disoriented as Jake does or should feel upon waking up for the first time in the new avatar. The room is blurry, and the voices are muffled, which causes to viewer to feel just as he does. There is a sense of confusion and fear of what could possibly happen to him as a result of his choices. There is still the beeping of the monitors that reminds the viewer that he is still within a hospital-like setting and should be taken very seriously. All over, there are reminders that he is unsafe and should be handled with care. When he chooses to run away; however, the entire mood changes. Right when Jake goes outside into Pandora, the music changes to a lighter tone, the hospital sounds go away, and there is a new clarity to the scene that wasn’t there before. The viewer then feels a certain lighter feeling to the world, and it is entirely uplifting, when seconds before the prospect of being in the avatar body was frightening and scary.

The purpose of this scene includes two different feelings. One is the feeling of disorientation vs. exhilaration between when Jake is still within the hospital room and when he is let outside. While in the confines of the human room, everything is still fuzzy and feels as if it is harmful, but once out in Pandora, nothing feels harmful, and all one is supposed to detect is happiness at the idea of freedom and the ability for Jake to use his new legs. The fact that he can leave without needing a wheelchair is a symbol for the actual freedom he experiences when he gets outside and really gets to live within Pandora. The ways of the Na’vi are so much different from those of humans, and they are able to live roaming free without fear of the outside elements, which is exactly the sensation that happens when Jake steps out of his room into the world. This scene as well is the beginning of when the mood switches to favor Pandora over the ways of the humans, because one sees how much happier Jake is within his Avatar body and how beautiful the planet is once he steps outside. It is subtly arguing for what is going to be more blatantly obvious later: Humans should want to be like the Na’vi. They should not want to be human anymore. At first, for Jake, this is because he can walk again. But later it becomes so much more than that, and that is why this scene sets so much up for the rest of the movie.