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Streamer Daisuke Hori began a livestream aiming to prove he can live on just 30 minutes of sleep a day for a week. On day one he snored and dozed off, though he denied it afterward; on day two, viewers watched him take hot baths and keep moving nonstop to fight off sleep; and by day three he was visibly slurring his speech. On 5ch, opinions split over his insistence that his naps were merely “microsleeps” that don’t count as real sleep, over the truth of past claims like “30 minutes of sleep for 17 years” and “three meals a week,” and over whether a short-sleeper stunt like this should even be attempted.
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Day 2: Declared he wasn't sleepy and vowed not to sleep. Kept streaming himself taking hot baths and moving around constantly to avoid dozing off
Day 3: Finally started slurring his words on stream
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Must be exhausting dealing with comments like this nonstop
Funny how his veins are bulging from sleep deprivation
Apparently he only eats 3 meals a week, so the Marines still have a long way to go
Far from engaging with anyone, the moderators he hired auto-ban so aggressively that even Super Chats vanish instantly
With no readable comments left, he's just talking to himself about training theory, and nobody seems to care
Well, sleep or no sleep really is the only thing anyone's interested in
According to Hori, he's been living on 30 minutes of sleep for 17 years
He also once publicly claimed to eat only 3 meals a week, but bring that up and he'll block you, so there's no way to verify either claim
He cleared Dragon Quest 1 through 11 without sleeping, in 85 hours
Some guy called Fumya streamed Dragon Quest without sleeping for 200 hours
I think it's probably true in his own mind
He's likely the type who thinks, "Slept 8 hours? Nah, that's basically only 30 minutes of real sleep"
Either he genuinely believed his sleep really is 30 minutes,
or he figured he could just tough it out for a week —
but given how much he's blocking people, it's probably the latter
At the very least, blocking people and insisting naps 'don't count' seems like even he's not comfortable with the excuse
He insists he's not sleepy in the slightest
You should get some sleep too
Lol
It's a way for people who can't become anything else to get validation
Anyone can be a self-proclaimed short sleeper without any real effort
There's no way you bulk up like that without eating
And… blocked
Hori just dozed off on his own, but he's furious like 'you put me to sleep without my knowledge' — lmao
Feels like the term has taken on a life of its own
He could just say, "lol, sometimes a massage or bath feels so good you doze off," but instead he snaps his eyes wide open and goes "that was a microsleep, got it?" — and even makes the other guy apologize. That's rough
And that intense wide-eyed look isn't an act, it's just how he really is, so he probably can't help it
Apparently that's a tough call, because if he actually sleeps, it proves everything up to now has been a scam and a lie
He's just plain sleep deprived, honestly
Most people are just treating it as internet entertainment — they probably don't normally watch his livestreams
His morning streams barely have any viewers
No one's died so far, and if he does end up harming his own health, that's on him — so the entertainment value is pretty high
"Fools who dance and fools who watch — since we're all fools either way, you might as well dance" (a famous line from the Awa Odori folk dance song)
He said something like, "a nap isn't sleep, it's a light doze where you're still conscious"
Background and Key Points of the Debate
So-called “short-sleeper streams” are an endurance format in which streamers who market themselves on minimal sleep attempt to prove self-reported records, and commenters in the thread cited past examples like “Akino” and “Fumya” for comparison. What became the sticking point this time is that there’s no way for outsiders to verify Hori’s own claimed figures, such as “30 minutes of sleep for 17 years” or “three meals a week,” and his refusal to acknowledge dozing off as a failure, instead rebranding it as a “microsleep.” The argument over whether naps count as sleep tends to go in circles, since Hori shuts down pushback with blocked words and outright blocking, leaving the thread split between views like “it’s probably true in his own mind” and “the term has taken on a life of its own.” Note that this article omits highly defamatory, unverifiable comments, such as those alleging unsubstantiated financial disputes.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Newssoku VIP) thread “[Breaking] Daisuke Hori, aka “Captain Bullshit” (a pun on his surname Hori/hora, meaning “tall tale”), Already Hitting His Limit in His Week-Long 30-Minutes-of-Sleep Proof Livestream lol.”
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