# Encode Thoughts <hr> **Attack:** `dice: 1d20+3` **Damage:** `dice: 8d6` ```button name Attack! type command action Dice Roller: Re-roll Dice customColor #f8c537 ``` | Spell: | Encode Thoughts | [[Enchantment]] Cantrip | | ---------------------------: | ------------------------------------------------------: | ---------------------------------- | | ![[Encode Thoughts.png]]<br> | **Casting Time:<br>Range:<br>Components:<br>Duration:** | *1 action<br>Self<br>S<br>8 hours* | ## Description <hr> You pull a memory, an idea, or a message from your mind and transform it into a tangible string of glowing energy called a thought strand, which persists for the duration or until you cast this spell again. The thought strand appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you as a Tiny, weightless, semisolid object that can be held and carried like a ribbon. It is otherwise stationary. If you cast this spell while concentrating on a spell or an ability that allows you to read or manipulate the thoughts of others (such as [[Detect Thoughts]] or [[Modify Memory]]), you can transform the thoughts or memories you read, rather than your own, into a thought strand. Casting this spell while holding a thought strand allows you to instantly receive whatever memory, idea, or message the thought strand contains. (Casting _detect thoughts_ on the strand has the same effect.)