Good thought but nightowl is completely right... One thing you CAN do is if you are doing some sort of "creative writing" assingment that is something like "place yourself in the civil war - what are your feelings and other stuff" You could place yourself right there in a dream and get an A++ (not only that, but you could control that and go on a realistic adventure and write a short little book (with like 100 or so pages) it would be so cool... yeahh...