Usually it happens in SP. You can move in SP, although not your physical body, of course, and your arms are easier to move than anything else. Moving anything else is usually too hard and you get pinned down anyway. You can see what you move, too, if you strain. My arms look translucent, just like yours. Maybe it's a general rule. I always wondered why translucent.
Or maybe you dreamt all of it and it matched what I described accidentally. Such things happen, too.
it wasnt until later that the strangeness and perhaps gravity of the experience hit me[/b]
Usually it doesn't hit in a dream, so maybe that was the point when you woke up fully.

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