You are in the accelerated learning state when noises won't put you off. Your attention will be supremely focused. Also the tangerine will be easy to maintain when in that state.
To get into that state you can do a relaxation exercise or listen to a tape that puts you in an alpha or theta brain wave state. In fact there are many ways to get into the state. The course puts you into that state on tape 1 and tape 3.
How do you know that you are in the state? I can only tell you how it feels when I am in that state. First of all my breathing gets deeper. I become supremely focused. All the feelings of being distracted go away and my internal critic gets silenced. Its pretty cool.
