@hubermanlab shares a sleep trick with Jimmy! #FallonTonight
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Close your eyes, right?
I see you're lying in bed and you can't sleep, or you woke up.
It's normal to go to the restroom in the middle of the night once or something.
You get back in bed and now your mind's going.
Okay.
Okay.
So with your eyes closed, you're going to move your eyes slowly to one side,
then to the other side,
then up.
I'm not kidding here.
Then down,
then kind of counterclockwise,
then clockwise, and now an inhale and a long exhale.
There you go.
There you go.
So as crazy as this sounds, okay, I realize this probably sounds crazy, but there's something really important to understand that these eye movements confuse the
circuit between the eyes, the brainstem, and this thing called the cerebellum.
And that circuit is responsible for knowing where your limbs are in space.
And when you do this, it just confuses the circuit.