Another way of looking at it is, it's your liver is misreading the signals of your body's blood glucose system, due to the insulin resistance (as well as other malfunctions), and wrongly 'seeing' your blood glucose as needing a boost to get you up from sleep, when in fact, as you know - you have probably more than enough glucose whipping around your body already, in fact - already too much, or even, way too much. It's a significant part of the diabetes type 2 dysregulation. And yes - major major pain in the proverbial.