The phrase "are somehow confusing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is unclear or difficult to understand, often in a subjective manner.
Example: "The instructions provided in the manual are somehow confusing, making it hard for users to follow them."
Alternatives: "are somewhat unclear" or "are a bit perplexing."
This split in imagining something far away and having a visceral response but actually being in a different present moment is somehow confusing.
Despite these burdens, it would be far worse for Council members to decide that the voters were somehow confused when they approved term limits and that this electoral confusion should be remedied by the very Council members whose terms were shortened by the voters.
Mr. Damnjanovic said the flight was carrying clothes and shoes and was somehow confused with the arrival of a similar aircraft carrying weapons.
The reviewers are correct that these data are somewhat somehow confusing.
Despite the Doctor living beyond time, space and dimensions, people are somehow both offended and confused over sex being something the Doctor can manipulate.
His reason is not that he thinks that knowledge is an uninteresting state, or that the notion of knowledge is somehow fundamentally confused.
But don't confuse this with thinking that these funds are somehow "safe".
This was a lesson Taraji P. Henson was taught on Sunday after somehow confusing Coldplay for Maroon 5 during the much hyped Superbowl half-time show as she watched the performance from the stands.
He is weak on American history, somehow confusing the monstrously inhospitable Iroquois tribes with the Little Sisters of the Poor.
She has a confused notion of something that she calls "capitalism," and which is somehow held uniquely responsible for the oppression of animals, including dogs.
We confuse ourselves into thinking that sexual violence in this country is somehow less horrific.
