Why do we get goosebumps when we hear a song or see a movie scene?

Question

Why do we get goosebumps when we hear a song or see a movie scene?

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Answer 1

It’s all because of your brain’s network.

Imagine two cities: **Emotion City** which is focused on processing emotions, and **Music City** is focused on processing music.

Those two cities are connected by highways that share information. When you hear music, **Music City** processes it and sends it over to **Emotion City**. However, *maybe* because some people only have a few highways, the information doesn’t arrive quickly enough, and sometimes **Emotion City** isn’t really interested in it. You *like* the music you’re hearing, but it doesn’t make your body react.

For the people who get chills, goosebumps, or other physical reactions to music, they have *more* highways connecting the two cities. So you hear music, and then **Music City** floods **Emotion City** with information, and you *feel* the music in your body, like an emotion.

Now, *why* some people have more highways than others is not fully understood.