Thread: Dreaming about practicing stabilization techniques, then deciding to leave a dream scene

Last night I had a pretty interesting experience.
I had a dream where I for some reason decided to test the hand rubbing stabilization technique, and since I assumed that I was awake I got the exactly same effect as I would get in waking life - in other words, absolutely nothing.
But I was still very focused on the idea of lucid dreaming, and I think there was one point when I told myself to remember doing this stabilization technique "the next time I became lucid".
Then a while later I had a pretty annoying dream where I had messed up something for some guy, and I could hear that he was starting to get upset, and at that point I told myself something like "bah, I will leave this scene now", because I didn't feel like arguing with a dream character - and when I was awake in bed I told myself "yay, I successfully escaped ♫".
But I cannot say that my mind was very clear, it was more like I somehow knew that I could leave that dream and "get back to where I was in the beginning" or some similar vague logic like that.

What are your opinions on all this?