Yeah, bp's are nocturnal, sleep all day, play all night (kind of sounds like a teenager). As for the possibility of it being hungry, how old/big is your bp? Your bp can eat a mouse/rat that is as big around as the bp's biggest point around. In other words, if your snake at it's biggest point around is approximately 3-4 inches (for instance), you could feed it a mouse that is 3-4 inches around. Length doesn't really matter.