Okay recently I was assigned to write a paper about my goals for the future, both short and long term. I included having lucid dreams consistently as one of goals. I seriously doubt that my teacher even knows what a lucid dream is and I was only able to give a very brief explanation due to a maximum word count. All I was able to say was that it’s a very exciting and beneficial type of dream where you’re aware that you’re dreaming. I’m having second thoughts about this and I don’t think I should have put it in my paper, even though it’s my strongest goal as of the moment. The only reason I put it in there because I couldn’t think of anything else.
no worries flare i recently wrote a whole narrative essay on my first lucid dream and fear that i would get a f because my teacher would think i’m kidding. but it turned out I got a great grade and caused my English teacher to research lucid dreaming
I would not worry about it sounds like a great paper to me. Good luck with it. If your teacher gives you a hard time tell him/her to come visit this site and we will set him/her straight.
If your teacher does give you a low mark ask that s/he remarks it and looks into Lucid Dreaming if s/he is unsure of what it is.
You were told to write your goals, LDing is one of them. If your teacher looks into it s/he will appreciate how difficult it can be. I see no reason why you might get a low/bad mark for that
At first, congrats of being bold and being yourself.
Secondly, who gives a poopie what your teacher thinks. It’s you and you have been honest and right about your goals. If he/she doesn’t understand it, then it’s not your problem. Be what you are!
Reminds me of this research paper I did on the morality of Atheists. Earlier in the course we had a debate over abortion and someone mentioned that Atheists had no morals because they had no spiritual rules to follow. To make the story short, I was really nervous that people were going to get pissed off at me, and that my teacher might not like the idea and give me a bad grade.
I mentioned all sorts of interesting facts about how over 90% of the inmates in prison in the United States where Christians. How countries that don’t have organized religion in mass such as Japan has not even 1/10000 the ammount of homicides that the United States has.
I’m sure this didn’t make them happy, but the lack of Q & A basicly protected me from any harassment. I don’t think I got a good grade on it, but it was mainly because I am not good at writing at all. I try to practice a lot more now. Not sure if it has payed off at all.
it’s good to force yourself into “mistakes” like that… it helps you build confidence and overcome ego-defense mechanisms.
like when you want to do something but you think “no” you should do it anyway… and NOT REGRET it
like my teacher said something stupid about abu-ghraib and so i impulsively sent her an “informative” email … and i regretted it but then i was like “no man, you did what you felt like you should do, you were being confident, even if it was stupid it’s good you got yourself to do that”
and the more you do that the less influence you will be by what other people think or want from you.
When I started LDing some years ago it even took some time until I told my brother. After some time I realized that most people don’t think that you are crazy when you talk to them about LDs. I decided that I don’t care about the few people who do anyways, so I did a little speech about LDing in front of my class at school and it was fine.
So, don’t worry
You have to remember that teachers are looking for things like punctuation, grammar, spelling and how well you put your research together. They drool over topics that are different. The fact that you are concerned about how he/she will take it says that you will undoubtedly do extremely well on articulating your goal. And your teacher will be all smiles.
It doesnt seem like a mistake to me at all. Lucid dreaming does sound like it iS a part of u and u did the right thing by being yourself and writing about it. If your teacher has never heard of LDing, it will ceratinly be interesting to c their reaction to what it actually is…as my teacher did hehe.
i recently wrote a whole narrative essay on my first lucid dream and fear that i would get a f because my teacher would think i’m kidding. but it turned out I got a great grade and caused my English teacher to research lucid dreaming 
Good luck with it. If your teacher gives you a hard time tell him/her to come visit this site and we will set him/her straight. 
Nice Job!!
for her/him.
That is Wonderful Pav!!! Did your teacher make any comments on the subject?