So do actors and actresses. The women's World Cup champion team did it. Sales reps do it.
College presidents do it before their big meetings with potential donors.
Graduate students often do it as part of the preparation for the oral defense of their dissertations. Of course, as consumers, we routinely engage in visualization every time we walk into a clothing store. We look at the clothes and touch the fabrics. In the context of the continuing campus conversations about technology in the college classroom, a safe guess is large numbers of faculty began their adventures in cyberspace by first visualizing themselves sitting in front of a computer, then later visualizing their efforts using Information Technology in the syllabus and the classroom. Of course many baby boomers who were to become academics had little exposure to computers during our undergraduate and graduate training.