Over and over again this came up, and then everybody proceeded to go forward and talk about the safety issue. It is sort of like a 1984 mentality, very much like we are all kind of zombied out.
1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, and George M. Beschner [eds.], Angel Dust: An Ethnographic Study of PCP Users (Lexington Books; →ISBN, 9780669033793), page 87
Eddie: Sometimes I would see them real mellow and the next minute they’d be all zombied out, and the next minute they were walking around […]
⁽¹⁾ As though he’d been passed out on the floor all these years or zombied out on weed like that idiot Ferd.
⁽²⁾ They would talk of course how the Monsters came out gooning, putting a seven spot up in the first and making it look easy, yukking it up in the dugout while the Sticks key-stoned it on the field, falling down and running into each other, zombied out and demoralized with their main man scratched from the lineup.
⁽³⁾ On the other side of the field morose Monsters were rowed along the dugout aimlessly fooling with equipment, zombied out, while Stick fans surged against the fence, shouting and waving.
1983, Mark Baker, Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (New York: Berkley Books; →ISBN, 9780425071687), page 79
Adrenaline junkies, zombied out on fear, working the assembly line on the nod, they shuffled about the business of the war factory.
i saw my friends go into a room, an hour later they’d be in the lounge acting crazy: sedate as wandering death, completely inarticulate and just zombied-out.
[“…] on, outwardly everything’s just dandy, but I’ve been kind’ve zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music . . . I don’t know, maybe I called to give you a chance to say I told you so.”