Personal observation, maybe not the same for everybody(especially New Players)

Right, you notice that when working on muscle memory skills, you'll often struggle throughout the drill. But when you pick it up the next day, you'll be much more proficient at it.

I thought it was just me.

I'm going to probably start taking video footage of my hands while playing certain involved songs and passages so I can have a quick reference for later. I don't read music and I notice that particularly if a song is in a non-standard tuning I'll tend to neglect it for a while and when I come back to it, I can only remember bits and pieces so I have to sit down and learn it all over again.

One thing's for sure, this lockdown has been a boon for my playing. I'm making a brand new list of songs to run through like ones I've done in the past that took months, sometimes a year to develop. It's now coming together in a matter of days.

One of the things I once did in a former life was compete in all things whitewater canoe.

This one particular task involved doing this kayak move in a canoe. No one in canoes were really consistent, they just very hit or miss, if even able to occasionally hit it. So the night before this big event, as I lay weighting the day, I started doing these mental rehearsals with Bob the kayaker making those moves in my boat. Visualizing him making it look routine. Just like he could in his kayak until nodding off. Next day comes and this move was near automatic. Several of us had been working on this series of moves for weeks. And I just went off, on demand, and like I had been sandbagging in practice.

So whom do I need to visualize playing my guitar?