 because dream incubation can help. Maybe you're trying to figure out how to arrange the furniture in your new apartment, or you need help with a homework problem you've been puzzling over. Deirdre conducted a study on this, where she asked 76 students to choose a problem they needed to solve. They tended to pick personal problems, relationship dilemmas, or job decisions, things like that. And they did dream incubation for a week. About 50% of them remembered a dream about the problem, and a majority of those students felt it solved the problem.