Confusional Arousals

Confusional Arousals

Confusional Arousals is the feeling that you get when you wake from a deep sleep, and you don't know where you are or what is going on. This is also a metaphor for my life.

Episodes

January 12, 2026 18 mins

Can Gratitude heal our sorrow? It's a coin toss.

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Episode 40 – The meaninglessness of words in the face ofsorrow.

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December 22, 2025 28 mins

Winter Songs 02 – More songs created by A.F. Winter and amusing stories to accompany them.

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December 12, 2025 14 mins

Episode 38 – Esperanto Part 2: Economics, Rita Moreno, the reason for all of this, and other such nonsense.

Correction – Mr. Esperanto’s book, Poems For No One, can only be purchased through either of my websites: www.confusionalarousals.com or www.afwinter.com on the book page.

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December 2, 2025 16 mins

Episode 37 – Esperanto Part 1.  My first guest, bathroom breaks, writing in dead languages, a strange proposition, and other such nonsense.


For more information on Zachery Esperanto’s book, Poems For No One, please visit:

https://www.afwinter.com/poems-for-no-one.html


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November 22, 2025 24 mins

Episode 36 - Build a Ghost Town. – Political assassinations,school safety, and how we treat our neighbors.

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November 20, 2025 22 mins

The Madness of King Winter. Drinking the Flavoraid or not, the price of acceptance, remaining sane, and other such nonsense.


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November 4, 2025 23 mins

Lee Breuer – Where I didn’t meet him. Where I didmeet him. Vsevlod Meyerhold and making brave artistic choices.

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October 22, 2025 27 mins

Episode 33 – Andre Pt 2 –  Gifts from strangers, alien encounters, art galleries, and Endgame in the wilderness, and other such nonsense.

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October 12, 2025 26 mins

Episode 32 – Andre Pt 1 – Tribute to Andre Gregory, howlingat the moon in Marfa, Texas, alien abductions, embarrassing moments, and other such nonsense.

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October 4, 2025 23 mins

Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligences, Standing Up to the Man. Me, Me, Me,Leaps of Faith, and other such nonsense.

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September 22, 2025 24 mins

Episode 30 – The Airplane – Travel lists, a change of underwear, Schrödinger’s cat, and other such nonsense.

 


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September 11, 2025 27 mins

Winter Songs – Songs created for Confusional Arousals andpoetry written by A.F. Winter.

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September 2, 2025 20 mins

The Scorpion – Turtles, frogs, monks, scorpions, politicalassassinations, and other such nonsense.

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August 23, 2025 21 mins

Episode 27 – T-shirts, first dates, dystopian futures, cherry pie, and other such nonsense.

Note: There is some inappropriate language in this one. Totally appropriate for the episode, but maybe not so for young impressionable minds.

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August 12, 2025 22 mins

Buddha, Trump, and Nietzsche. All of life, politics and philosophy are just nonsense.


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August 2, 2025 22 mins

The story of a plant named Dana.

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July 22, 2025 17 mins

Feathers – Another trip to New York, Dickinson, Allen,Winter, the yellow rose of Texas, and other such nonsense.

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July 12, 2025 20 mins

Hard Boiled Eggs – Trying to break the interweb, cooking with expired crap, the joy of stupidity, and other such nonsense.

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Solitude, quoting writers I’ve never read, omnipotentnarrators, head-hopping, and other such nonsense.

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