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The story
Daisuke Hori, who built his popular YouTube channel on the claim that he’s slept only 30 minutes a day for 17 years, is making waves on 5channel after he snored and fell into a deep sleep during a collaboration stream with a massage therapist — taking roughly 29 minutes to wake up. Viewers also noticed that the stream was paused while he was asleep, and that the camera angle and screen layout had changed once it resumed. Opinions in the thread were split over whether this really counts as “sleep,” with some suspecting he hid an inconvenient moment, as debate raged over how credible his explanation really was.
What people said
He paused the stream right at the inconvenient part, lol
Lol, he's got a full 30 minutes before the ten-count
The cameraman's position changed too. Is that normal?
Apparently he was really asleep and the alarm went off
Sounds like they cut the stream around then
Oh…
Can't believe amateurs don't even get that
That 30 minutes from last night
suddenly turned out to actually be 27 minutes
And since he slept 3 minutes during the massage just now, he's now claiming that adds up to 30
Apparently
No way he'd fall asleep on day one
It's just something extremely close to sleep, that's all
He mutes it whenever things get inconvenient
Because he ended up snoring for about 20 minutes
Probably 'harassment-the-staff' time (パワハラ, i.e. abusing his authority over them)
There's also word he slept 30 minutes at night — is that supposed to count toward September 9th instead?
The 30 minutes he slept around 2:00 AM
has now become just 27 minutes of sleep
And that 30-minute massage nap just now
was apparently just microsleep, so that's 3 minutes
So he seems to be trying to claim the grand total is still only 30 minutes, but…
Lol, everyone involved comes out ahead
He was already cranking out multi-million-view videos one after another anyway
Apparently if the sleep quality is bad, it doesn't count as sleep
Wow, so health-conscious of him
At this point he's basically a shill for a bedding company
Why would a guy who's only slept 30 minutes a day for 17 years…
We're lucky to have witnessed the first time in 17 years this short sleeper has slept more than 30 minutes straight
About 1 hour 17 minutes ago
He's already asleep by around 2:20 PM
True, if it were really sufficient sleep he should be able to wake up without an alarm
Same as me
Could it be that BCAAs or EAAs are keeping his parasympathetic nervous system from kicking in?
Background and Talking Points
Daisuke Hori built a YouTube following racking up millions of views on videos centered around his claim of sleeping only 30 minutes a day for 17 years, and this massage-therapist collaboration was part of that same ongoing demonstration series. Medically, there are documented cases of “short sleepers” who stay healthy on very little sleep, but most such reports lack backing from research institutions using tools like EEG monitoring and rest on self-reporting alone. The sticking point in the thread was that Hori has previously offered his own idiosyncratic standards for what counts — claiming that snoring he was “aware of” doesn’t count, or that passing out is “safe” — leaving viewers deeply skeptical of the very definition of “sleep” he’s using. The fact that the stream was paused while he dozed off, and that the camera position and screen layout had changed by the time it resumed, has only fueled suspicions of staging or editing.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Nanademo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] Short Sleeper Daisuke Hori Feels So Good During a Collab Shoot with a Massage Therapist That He Falls Asleep for 29 Minutes wwwwww.”
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