Question from @James (original post):
@qOS Can Mind’s Eye potentially take someone from aphantasia or zero visual imagery to hyperphantasia?
Summary
@James — Mind’s Eye is not written in terms of aphantasia or hyperphantasia, so there is no promise on its page of carrying someone from one end of that scale to the other. What it is written for is close enough to your question that it is worth being exact about.
How the title treats someone with no pictures
Mind’s Eye starts from the position that everyone already visualizes, just not in the same channel: some see, some feel, some simply know. It develops whichever of those is yours, and it carries separate scripting for learning another form if you want one. For someone with zero visual imagery, that is the route in: it strengthens the channel you do have first (felt sense, knowing, spatial sense), and the “learn another form” scripting, together with the barrier-reducing and block-clearing scripting, is what works toward pictures. The vividness-and-detail, all-five-senses, and clarity-and-control features are the ones that push imagery toward lifelike, but they are written as capacities you build through use, not as a switch.
What it can and cannot be said to do
It may help you develop imagery where there was none, and it may make whatever imagery arrives more vivid, controlled and detailed over time. It makes no neurological claim, it names no ceiling, and nothing on the page says a given person reaches hyperphantasia. Where you end up after a sustained run is genuinely individual.
What progress would look like from zero
If you begin with no pictures, the first changes are usually in the non-visual channel: the felt sense of a scene gets more deliberate and more detailed, mental rehearsal starts producing a clear “knowing” of a sequence, a mind palace works as a route you walk rather than a room you see. Flickers of image, a shape, a colour, a fragment held for a moment, tend to come after that, if they come. The log from the last answer matters more for you than for most: write down what channel each session used and how long you held it, because the move from knowing to seeing is gradual and easy to miss.
Run it as discussed, with daily deliberate practice, and judge by the record over a full cycle rather than by whether a picture has appeared yet. One thing worth holding onto: the felt-sense and knowing forms are treated by the title as complete visualization in their own right, fully usable for rehearsal, memory and manifestation, so a run that deepens those without producing images is still the title doing its job.