Moving while Out of body

[missym]

So far, I have practiced and tried AP'ing every day, sometimes twice a day for a month and a half. At one point, I got what I believe are my Astral arms up, the weird thing is that if I tried physically moving my body would actually move.
I felt my astral arms raise a bit but it was like I was fighting through something extremely thick, it took me about 10 minutes just to get my arms straight up in the air, but even so I still felt like if I moved, my physical body would actually move. I decided that this substance was just too thick and it had drained my energy almost completely, so I gave up and came out of the trance.
My astral arms were also quite cold.

Was this all in my head or did I actually get my arms out?

[personalreality]

That was trance.  When you enter trance your energy body that is always with your physical (often called the etheric body) expands.  What you feel is your hands/arms floating.  Then you do everything you can you make them rise higher because you think that you're partially out and if you can just move a little farther your whole body with follow.  You just wind up tensing your muscles and probably moving your physical body and ruining your trance.  If you get to that point, fight the urge to try to move, because when you do you bring too much of your consciousness back and lose your single-minded focus.

[missym]

Alright, that makes sense. Thank you.