Logging IFR  

Your kidding yourself if you believe that poking around inside a cloud that you can easily exit is the equivalent of IMC flight. I will grant that most of my IFR flights are in conditions that are about as much out of the clouds as in the clouds. Despite that fact, the feeling of being in IMC conditions that require an approach to exit the conditions is a totally different animal. The confidence and knowledge to conduct true IMC operations comes through serious practice and training. You are, at most, preparing yourself for brief encounters with reduced visibility and there is value to that, despite the fact you are operating in violation of regulations and perhaps putting others in danger.