Victim of a Midnight Pixie Peroxide Attack

I had a bad night. Severe AM nightmares and a lot of physical pain. I couldn’t sleep between 3-6am, but after that I was eventually tired enough to doze again. When I got up at 8:30, I had something of a shock.

Overnight my beard has turned white. Or more accurately, there’s a v-shaped patch of white beard around my chin that makes it look like I’m the victim of a midnight pixie peroxide attack. It gives me the appearance of a bad cartoon character and the whole beard now just has go. The fact that this happened overnight staggers me. It seems as if all those ghost stories telling how shock and nightmare can turn you white were not total bunk as I’ve always believed.