 While most of these dreams occurred spontaneously, a small proportion of the respondents had discovered informal versions of dream incubation on their own.They reported giving themselves successful pre-sleep suggestions for everything from seeing finished artwork in their dreams to developing plots or characters for a novel to asking dreams to solve computing and mechanical design problems.Some conclusions that can be made after Barrett’s studies is that the solutions a person comes up with based on their dream simply has to do with a solution they were just subconsciously aware of.