Sleep Eating Disorder

This is a sleep-related disorder, which is a combination of a sleep and an eating disorder. It is a relatively rare type of disorder and is known by other names like, sleep-related eating (disorder), nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED), and sleep-eating syndrome.

Some of the abnormal behaviors that can happen with sleep eating are:

• Complete absence of awareness during the episode
• Involuntary and recurring motor activity
• Slow reaction time and less sensitivity to environment
• Trouble waking up despite spirited attempts
• Total memory loss of the episode in the morning (retrograde amnesia); and
• No or little dream recall about the event.