If you're looking for a quick memory fix, move your eyes from side-to-side for 30 seconds, researchers say. Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another, and communication between brain hemispheres is important for retrieving certain types of memories.

Which way do eyes go when remembering?

Eyes left: remembered imagery (up), remembered sounds, words and discriminating tones (sideways), inner dialogue (down) Eyes straight: quickly accessing sensory information (unfocused or dilated)

Why do my eyes move when Im thinking?

The eye movements we are discussing are called saccades. Their role in vision is to bring salient information onto the fovea. Because the saccades that accompany thinking do not seem to occur for the purpose of visual processing, we refer to them as “nonvisual” eye movements.