Over the past two weeks I have been waking up frequently at night, and most times I have been very hungry. I know the techniques to improve the quality of sleep but this part of being hungry is what I am curious about. Does this happen to anyone else? I have tried eating large meals at dinner and several partial dinners through the evening but neither of these really stop the hunger I have only a few hours later-hunger that can take me from dreaming to being fully awake almost instantly. A few times I have been so hungry that I felt too weak to get up to find food and so have tried to go back to sleep for a while. It takes some time to go back to sleep and my sleep after this has been short and I repeat waking until I do manage to get up and find something to eat. I do not really feel especially disoriented excepting that usual small amount for just waking up. I am not heavily active right now so I do not understand how I am eating this much food. Could some kind of unconscious shaking while I sleep be using enough calories to leave me hungry after eating twice what I had been eating before? This is disturbing as otherwise my sleep has been improving significantly lately. Has anyone else faced this and settled it?