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Proprioception

The silent sense that tells you where your body parts are and what they are doing without looking - the reason you can touch a finger to your nose with your eyes shut. It runs on receptors in the muscles, tendons, and joints that continuously report tension and joint angle to the brain, weaving a body-map that sits below conscious awareness. It goes unmentioned only because it never switches off. On Pandora it is the sense tsaheylu extends: when a Na'vi bonds with an ikran, the animal's wings and body fold into the rider's own body-map, felt as if they were her own limbs.