Historical Hallucinations

He can travel back in time. He's a human time machine, sort of.
John Hudson is a normal man in his twenties. He's struggling to make it out in the world. He lives in a decent apartment in Chicago. One subject he's extremely knowledgable on his history. When he gets the opportunity to become a history teacher at a local high school, his life only begins to get better and better. Or he thinks.
When he makes a wish to be the most knowledgable man when it comes to history ever, he starts having odd dreams where he travels to different periods and places in history. Although he thinks these dreams are a sign of something wonderful, they turn out to be a menace to his ambition. And his life.

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