If you wake up and find crumbs in your bed or the remains of a food fest in the kitchen, you could have Night Eating Syndrome. Also called Nocturnal Sleep-Related Eating Disorder, it is a real but little understood condition in which people wake from sleep and compulsively binge on large quantities of food.
Often, people with the disorder eat while in a state of altered consciousness, similar to sleep-walking, and don’t remember eating.
An estimated 1.5 percent of Americans have experienced night-eating.
