An eye movement technique involving eye swiveling can facilitate falling asleep and maintaining sleep.

“The eyes closed eye movement thing for sleep seems goofy (even to me) but makes great sense based on the vestibular aspect of needing to “not think about your body position” to sleep.”

“Eye movements coordinate with your vestibular system & cerebellum to mimic the natural forgetting of body position that happens at sleep onset (similar to slow rocking or boat motion calming the brain).”

“But what it does is it takes you your vestibular system into a state. We know this based on data that mimics the state you're trying to achieve, which is that you need to forget about your body's position.”