By that I mean going just by the physical feel in your hands, so having a headset on or ear plugs in so you can’t acually hear anything you’re playing, only feel it in your hands. Quite interesting and a different version of practice. It’s pretty cool.
I think it takes a lot of the judgment away that would otherwise stop you n make you repeat a phrase. Perhaps a technique to practice flowing along non stop.
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Closest I can think is playing unplugged while watching TV
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With ear plugs in so you can’t hear shit lol
I was thinking about this today, I’d rather be deaf than blind, I love music, but some sounds, aka people, I’d rather not hear, But feel n sight, I love looking at certain things… you know, my guitars obviously…
Does spending most of junior high using a pick on the edge of my desks until I was reprimanded and then kept doing it anyway count?
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You’d have gotten along with the drummers in my high school.
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@WhammyStarScream I used to from time to time, I posted about it before. If I find the thread I’ll link it.
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I was in a studio recording some backing track thing for a choir once and on the first take there was something that caused my guitar to be either super quiet or muted in my headset.
Then we went in the control room to listen to it and the engineers just looked at me with a blank expression until I explained that I actually didn’t hear anything for the whole thing so we should probably do another take.
It was very janky on the timing, maybe for several reasons, but not hearning myself probably didn’t help. I think the drummer had some issues hearing his click as well during the whole thing. The next take was luckily fine though! 
Interestingly, I heard an interview with Ron Bumblefoot Thal where he said when he was playing live with Sons of Apollo, he doesn’t hear himself at all in monitors or anything, which is mental. It was in a Pete Thorn interview and he was quite perplexed. In one way, I guess it could relieve the pressure if you get very mentally obsessed about how you sound and it interferes with your playing. But I can’t see it outweighing the benefits of you know… hearing what the hell you’re doing.
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