Will You Sleep Your Hunger To Forget The Pain?

I can stand not taking anything up to 2 or 3 pm but i can't sleep if i'm hungry. I usually don't eat breakfast because i'm too lazy to prepare food in the morning. We all sleep late so i don't want my wife to prepare breakfast in the morning. I just usually buy food on my way to the office and have breakfast there. On most occasions, i skip breakfast altogether and just eat lunch at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. But i never skip dinner. If ever i have to skip dinner its because i'm not feeling hungry. There were times that i went straight to bed without eating dinner but i only end up tossing in bed so i have no choice but to get up and grab some food only after that that i've finally been able to sleep.

If I am tired I can't barely feel the pain, I just sleep the hunger away. But when I am not tired, I can feel and sense the grumbling so I usually eat something to tame my stomach.

I have trouble sleeping as it is, because my mind is overly active and it won't close down, so being hungry on top of that will make things twice as bad, usually I will eat a piece of fruit or a couple of plain biscuits to stop the hunger pangs before bed. I am careful not to eat too much as well because it's not good to go to bed on a full stomach either. I guess when we are asleep everything closes down and just the breathing is in operation so that our entire bodies have a chance to rest, kind of switching off the engine if you like and our bodies are on standby.

well, i will eat first before i sleep if i am really hungry. i don't like to sleep with empty stomach.

I won't ever go to sleep with a rambling stomach. It's too difficult to ignore when hunger pangs, I will really get up and walked to the fridge and get some food and eat. We cannot feel the pain when we are asleep because we are not conscious, when we are sleeping, we are protected by our subconscious, so each emotion and bad feeling that our consciousness is dishing out, are not recognized by our subconscious. We don't feel hungry anymore on the following morning maybe because the pain has gone, I mean when the chemicals that inhibit pain are subsequently gone, everything will be back to normal, including the ceasing of pain.

When I'm about to sleep and my tummy is aching for food, I just drink a glass of milk or hot chocolate. It's enough to for me to fight hunger at midnight. I guess, it depends on the person if he is used to eating before bedtime and he can not take his aching stomach.

I can't sleep when I'm hungry, so I might as well eat something. I don't need to stay up two hours after eating, though, so I can go to bed in a half hour or so after eating a little. I think we do feel pain when we sleep, but of course, when we're asleep, we don't respond to it the same. When it becomes intense, we wake up.

I know while I am dieting I have been told to go to sleep early. I try not to eat anything, or I try to eat a filling dinner to ward off any hunger. I do feel pain. But its only my back that I feel it in. I will actually wake up several times during the night from it.

neildc no I cannot sleep my hunger away because I am a diabertic and if I feel hungry at bedtime it is a sure sign I need to check my blood sugar, if its low I must have orange juice or some hard cany at once, 15 grams of carb then check in fifteen minutes if its up to normal I must eat something like peanut butter and bread or cheese and bread to keep it up til morning,just half a sandwich, then I can sleep.as for pain, the arthritic pain I get at times defies me sleeping through it, i have to take a pain killer of some sort. Probably our endorphins kick in when we go to sleep, they are our own bodies pain killer but some pains just too much for them, then I get out the ibuprofin and take two tablets a healthy diabetic should feel a little hunger when he or she awakes or their blood glucose is too high.

Hi Neil, Its best to eat if you are hungry as its not nice to go to bed hungry, you'll soon wake and all you can think about is food, so eat when hungry, you won't feel the pain while you are asleep bu you will feel it more when you awaken Hugs. Tamara

Good thing that there is still left overs or food to cook in the fridge. But as you have said, imagine the poor people who just sleep their hunger because they don't have anything, right? So we are still thankful for our situation, the only solution is to get up, prepare some quickie snack (not to heavy for the tummy) because we need to go back to bed and sleep. Now about your question on the pain, well when we sleep we are unconscious, so the mind that tells us our hunger would be hindered because the signal of the brain to ask for a need will be interrupted for a while when we are sleeping (not moving or unconscious) but the digestive function will still work within. But we do know that the effect is really bad since the stomach will compensate something in our body so that the hunger would be solved for the time being. Although this adjusts itself because our stomach is much more active from 7 to 9am in the morning while the spleen is active from 9 to 11 am. Our body is a perfect creation of God which enables self healing. If we wake up the next morning and the hunger was gone, it is because of the fact that our body has unique ability in distributing ones need for the sake of the one needing. But we will feel light weight. See how your metabolism slows down on ones body. If they eat less how much would the fat be burned up? less right, it is because we are motionless. So the body adjusts itself specially if you have been doing this as a practice (people who fast or detox) for the purpose of cleansing the body.

Hello neildc, maybe because we had a lot to do before we get to sleep, that's what happens to me before i got to sleep. but that's why i prefer drinking water or chocolate when ever the temptation of hunger comes in. but for two days i didn't hesitate to eat for no reason besides being a bit hngry

For one thing if I'm hungry I'll eat regardless of how tired I am. If I'm real tired I'll probably stick a spoon in a jar of peanut butter and have a couple of spoonfuls or I'll drink some milk wait half an hour then go to bed. If I ignore my hunger i may not like it in the morning or be sick the entire day. When our bodies sleep they slow down. the process of diagestion is one of those processes that also slows. When we are at rest we don't need to burn off food as quickly for engrery like we do during the day. So it slows down and burns off things a whole lot slower so that when we wake we wake up refreshed.

Oh no! I dont think I can ever to that. I just think that I need to have something in my stomach before I sleep. I just cant stand the hunger when I sleep. I remembered one time I was hungry and I didnt want to get some food in the fridge and I just told myself that I will still be able to sleep after wards but I wasnt able to. So I got up, ate something and went back to bed and that was it. I was not bothered by the growling of the stomach anymore. lol