Inarticulate mumbling

That circumstance that occurs often in dreams where, when you’re trying to read something important, it’s illegible, hopelessly blurred, and when you’re trying to hear something important it’s inaudible, an inarticulate mumbling.

I heard some of the latter last night: a friend whispering in my ear what I took to be friendly advice but I couldn’t make out one word of it. When I asked him to repeat, I still couldn’t make it out. So I said we better go outside where it was quieter, and I guess we did — for I woke.