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Hypnotist reflects on mirror error

A sword-swallowing hypnotist put himself in a trance for five hours after practising in front of a mirror.

Helmut Kirchmeier was found in the hypnotised state by his shocked wife Joanna at their home in London.

She had to call a mentor of her husband’s to talk him round over the phone, according to the Sun.

Joanna said: “I was really shocked when I found him, he was just like a zombie staring at himself in the mirror. His pupils had gone really small, which is a sign of someone under hypnosis.”

German Helmut, a performer with the touring Circus of Horrors group, learnt how to hypnotise himself so he could swallow swords.

The 38-year-old said: “I underestimated the techniques and how powerful they were. I put myself in a very deep state and lost all sense of time around me.”

The last thing Helmut remembered before falling in to his daze was getting up at 10am to practise his hypnosis.

“It is a very pleasant feeling. Sometimes it is so pleasant that you literally forget the things around you and that is what happened to me.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .