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Sleep eating (nocturnal eating syndrome-NES) goes a little further than that. I’ve read that people on ambient (and even not on any medicine) are sleep GOARGING. They wake up and go to the fridge and all the food is gone. They eat more than they ever could/would when they are awake. Although this condition affects both men and women, it is more common in females. It also occurs in daytime anorexics. They starve themselves during the day and unconsciously binge at night. This I think brings up the interesting point of self-control and unconscious behavior. In the case of the anorexic, she is using her I-Function to change her body’s natural behavior (not eating when she’s hungry etc). But then her I-Function is taken over and she unconsciously eats all the calories she should have during the day (unfortunately all at once). So instead of the I-function taking over the body (as in with psudocyesis and shingles), the body took over the I-function. Its also interesting that this must happen during sleep. Perhaps this is when the I-function is not active (which seems likely) and the unconscious can take over.