[arthurbrown]

Reread OP. This is not what they are trying to convey.

They are saying that taking psychedelics can provide a similar breakthrough like awakening after resolving trauma.

[tempsy]

which is why I said "zone out" was bad phrasing...

[justinpowers]

OP is saying that it is the trauma that causes the person to “zone out and sleep walk through life”, not the resolution. He’s comparing psychedelics to any more direct resolution of the trauma itself in that they both wake the person up. In other words, if you’re zoning out you have two choices: take psychedelics or just fix the trauma that is causing the zoning out in the first place.

A dozen hyphens might help: “...resolving trauma-that-causes-a-person-to-zone-out-and-sleep-walk-through-life can have equivalent effects to psychedelics.”

[okareaman]

I guess it's California surfer slang for being spaced out and not really present