None of the people on the deck were civilians and it wouldn't make sense for the Absolute to mentally shatter Her own followers whose mission was to retrieve the only weapon that can go against Her plan.
But when you spoke to them it was clear that they were lost in fantasy world and that fantasy was the mechanism of control. I can't remember every one but I do remember that one spoke about getting bulls in back into the barn. Lae'zel would chide you for taking time to talk to people so out of the their senses. The waking dream turns you into a thrall but it doesn't 'shatter' you in the sense that you are incapable of doing things like operating cannons or working to put out fires - you just believe you are putting out a barn fire, not a nautaloid fire. It stands to reason that the deeper one dives into the fantasy the greater control the absolute had.
