i KNOW the sleep tips, google. trust me, i know about the darkness and the light and evil screens and exercise and meditation and not napping. i know “”“how”“” to sleep. what i need you to tell me is how to convince my fuckass adhd brain that i need to give up on doing things for the day and that the hours between midnight and five a.m. are NOT secret free extra time that no one will notice if i steal
The interesting thing about Junji Ito’s art is that there’s kind of a rule in horror that it’s good to keep your monster or whatever obscured or shrouded in darkness because whatever the audience imagines will always be scarier than what you can portray. But Ito is so skilled that he just straight up shows you something downright fucknasty and it works, at least for me, because the slimy, gritty, sinewy, trypophobia-inducing monstrosity on the page is pretty much what I would have imagined anyway.
THIS IS A GORGEOUS ANALYSIS OF JUNJI ITO’S MASTERPIECES I APPLAUD YOU I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF