Sounds like a couple of weeks ago when I did IFR trainning for my PPL. Stratus clouds from 600ft up and when we were at about 3000ft up my instructor told me to make a left turn to intercept a radial for the Trent VOR (TNT) and I looked over my left shoulder to check nobody was there out of habbit (only to see nothing but grey obviously). Personally I really enjoyed it and I just wish that the IMC rating future was secure becuase I'd definetly be doing it then.
I too thought that the airplane was turning to the left for quite a while and its preety difficult to resist turning to the right to compensate.
I'm looking forward to my IR now (while off obviously) but good luck if you do decide to continue with the IMC course.
P.S. on the car drive home did you find yourself going to look for instruments like in the plane (I did)?