The "Present", Chapter 6 is also about time, but a very specific part of it, the "now." What are some of Dillard's thoughts on being in the present?

Dillard is basically saying that, in order to be experiencing the "now," or the present, one has to be unaware that it is the self which is doing the experiencing. In other words, if one is enjoying a magnificent sunset and is thinking of nothing, only experiencing the sunset, one is in the present. However, the moment one is aware of oneself enjoying the sunset, one is no longer in the now. Dillard defines the state of unselfconsciousness as "innocence," which she believes is an essential state for experiencing the present.