Peter Attia· MD
now we don't know why the eyes roll in the sockets like that but it's the first sign that you're making the transition from the world of wakefulness into sleep we use it as almost an indicator of the transition into sleep
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
now we don't know why the eyes roll in the sockets like that but it's the first sign that you're making the transition from the world of wakefulness into sleep we use it as almost an indicator of the transition into sleep
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what you'll see is that their eyeballs start to roll in their sockets and they're called slow rolling eye movements now we don't know why the eyes roll in the sockets like that but it's the first sign that you're making the transition from the world of wakefulness into sleep
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