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Speaking on BBC Radio Solent's popular Drive Time show, Hiatt said:

"One minute I was on the loo at home in West Sussex reading Roger's Profanisaurus, the next minute I had astral projected into the headquarters of the CIPR, which is the industry body for PR professionals.

"I knew instantly that I had astral projected, but what I was also pretty sure of was that I had gone back in time. Why else would the experienced PR practitioners in the boardroom of the CIPR be talking about the importance of key messages?

"In fact, when I looked at the big clock on the wall, the date read 14 March 2013."

Hiatt said the PR professionals in the building reacted angrily to his presence, although couldn't eject him from the building as he was a floating apparition above a tray of mini-patisseries, albeit one with its trousers still round its ankles.

What's more, by some mad coincidence that only a God could explain, Hiatt's three-year old Jack Russell bitch, Daisy, had also astral projected into the CIPR boardroom at the exact same time.

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was hovering above the whiteboard in the corner none the wiser, seemingly oblivious to her passage through not only space but time, too.

"The first thing that struck me as I hovered above that tray of pastries was that, even on the astral plane, dogs don't know what the f**k is going on. To Daisy, floating above that whiteboard in an alternative reality, it was just another day at the office."

After five minutes of hovering in some kind of ethereal hyper-stasis, an awkward situation for all the communications professionals in the room, Hiatt and the Jack Russell started to fade, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.

"The next thing I knew, Daisy and I were back in West Sussex on walkies in the field next to the house. She was chasing the farmer's sheep as if nothing had happened. She's very clever and always finds the one with the crook leg, which is easier to bring down."

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations declined to comment.