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[General] Would illusion based powers work on someone with aphantasia?

Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which someone can't produce images in their mind. I am someone that has this condition and it basically means that when I think of something or try to imagine something, it is solely the voice in my head saying it or a "concept" of the thing.

In a lot of superhero stories, there are people that can make you see things that aren't there, some that come to mind are Kali from stranger things, Matt in Heroes and Professor X.

Could anyone with these powers cause someone that is incapable of producing images in their head to see something that isn't there, whether to confuse them or to help them imagine a complex scenario?
gpt
I'd say that depends on how the illusion powers work.

Say if your power makes the victim "see their greatest fear" or something like that, then it likely wouldn't work, since the victim can't actually visualize their greatest fear.

But if the illusion is coming from the mind of the telepath, like the telapth creating a horde of fake enemies, then it should work since the visualization is being done in a mind that can do it.