I feel confused for no reason

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At least not one that is apparent to me. I don't always feel this way, and I haven't really taken note if it is triggered by certain situations or thoughts. But when I do feel like that, it just seems like things don't make sense; like I am aware that there is some bigger picture that I'm not comprehending. I know that's pretty vague, but so is the feeling.

I think that it's because I think so much and so constantly. I feel closed off from the world a lot, because I am either analyzing and trying to make sense of something (it could be anything, even a made-up situation), or I am daydreaming. If I'm daydreaming, I might be playing a semi-realistic situation in my mind as if I'm experiencing it, or a lot of times I find myself replaying bits from shows and movies, or even just repeating something I read or a line I heard; not out loud though, just in my head. Sometimes I do like to say the words out loud though, but only if I don't think others will notice. Though I guess some people at work have seen me do this, because they asked me why I'm talking to myself a few times before.

Anyway, my point is that maybe this odd confusion I get is because I get overloaded with too many thoughts at once, and I can't process it all so I end up feeling lost because they get mixed up. It does often feel like my thoughts jump around a lot; one minute I'll be analyzing some sort of problem, and the next I will be playing back a video or a scene from a movie in my mind, and then I am on to a different problem which is actually based on an imaginary and often unrealistic situation (maybe from the clip I was playing in my mind, I could go off on a random tangent and start imagining a whole new thing), then I realize that the whole time I have had a voice in my head repeating a line from a song or a show, or even just a random word, over and over.... it's pretty hard to do all that in my mind and interact normally with the outside world.

I probably look like an idiot, especially at work, because I may walk a few feet, then stop, walk a few more, then turn around and start going the other way, and then stop again and look around, before I finally remember what I was doing and realize I was walking the right way to begin with. I lose track of items that are right in front of me, or of what I am doing, what I was saying etc. fairly often, it's definitely multiple times daily. I will also have just a general, vague feeling of confusion sometimes, and the only thing that blocks it out is to recede back into my mind and my imagination, which doesn't help at work when I am supposed to be paying attention.

Does anyone else have a similar problem? What do you do about it?

That sounds very familiar to me, I always thought this was normal.
Sometimes it's stronger, at other times not so strong, but there is always
a degree of confusion present in my mind.
These days the mass media are intentionally fostering a short attention span.
What helps me when this monkey-mind gets out of control is to refrain from taking in
any more new information, so I have less stuff which needs to be analyzed.
And then, when I have a little time and quiet I do mindfulness exercises or meditation,
which is something that I find very hard to focus on. But the brain can be trained to
do it with a little persistence, because of it's neuro-plastic properties.
I never got to a level of clear mindedness where I would want to be, but it helps
to some degree anyway.