Addendum

I inadvertently omitted part of my reply to your question - the part addressing "what would indicate from their eye movements that they were going into a dissociative state."

Client behavior here is widely variable, but some people's eyes sort of catch or get stuck for a micro-moment. Some actually flutter or do something dramatic but that is rare. Most commonly, you can see people not tracking. I associate that with coming to the edge of one neural net or ego state and abutting up to the next. It may flow through smoothly. If not, that is, if it loops, an ego state intervention is called for, e.g., "I'd like to speak to the part of the self that comes up next"...and other queries.
There are many opinions about what sleepiness in EMDR means -- and I don't know which if any I believe. There isn't any research on point, but ideas include that sleepiness is: a defense, an ego state, or an artifact of good processing, that is, a kind of EMDR sawdust after some significant processing has occurred. The latter is my personal working hypothesis.

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