Dream incubation is a practiced technique of learning to plant a seed in the mind, in order for a specific dream topic to occur, either for recreation or to attempt to solve a problem.f you're just trying to dream about an issue or you want to dream of a person who's deceased or you haven't seen in a long time, you'd use very similar bedtime incubation suggestions as you would for problem solving: a concise verbal statement of what you want to dream about or a visual image of it to look at.