Why does music (especially cinematic, grand, or inspirational ones) trigger goosebumps?

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Was just listening to Hans Zimmer’s Time, which inspired this question.

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one interesting tidbit i’d like to add is that i never got this feeling till after i did mushrooms. after doing them once every 2 weeks for a summer in my early 20s, i’ve had pretty intense frisson ever since and it only seems to get stronger with age.

now if i listen to music i loved in my teens, frisson. even the national anthem at a stadium gives me frisson, esp the recording with whiney houston. that one has me blubbering like a baby every time. and i’m not the least bit patriotic, so that has nothing to do with it. it’s just straight up beautiful music. get the same thing with the star wars anthem at the beginning of every film. i just get choked up, it’s so intense.

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