sleep eating

I do not recall ever actually eating in my sleep. I know that I have dreamed about eating. There was the cool deliciousness of a cherry chocolate chip cone dream and the imagined last meal dream of steak and lobster that now disgusts me. Never have I actually gotten up in the middle of the night, in my sleep and eaten anything. But now I wonder a bit, if at times, I am asleep, to a certain extent, when I eat. Not literally asleep, with snoring and all, but sans consciousness, lacking understanding of what I am really doing. This could be a new medical condition, and I bet we all suffer from this disease sometimes. "Sleep Eating". Maybe there should be a pill you could take before every meal that would allow you to taste every bite, to savour the clash or melding of flavors, to stop you from eating more than is necessary and eating until you are beyond full. Maybe we all just need a mass hypnosis campaign in which the TV networks put subliminal messages out there, during the actual programing (not the commercials since everyone skips those anyway) where the populace would be told that eating must not be taken for granted. It would solve a lot of problems from gluttony and obesity to starvation in other countries because there would be so much more food available, and we might even begin to demand higher quality once we start to taste. I'm just sayin'.