What are good metaphors and similes for confusion?

I was bewildered as an unsuspecting cat attacked by a sea of bath water. (Hyperbolic, metaphor, simile, personification)

Walking through the forest, I was bewildered by the sudden appearance of a ghost, like a child witnessing glowing eyes under the darkness of the bed.

The cop was bewildered like a man who'd been wrongfully sentenced to death when his gun suddenly went off. (Irony as well)