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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Follow up on OP’s amazing question, do the goosebumps have anything to do with dopamine release, nostalgia, good memories, a checkpoint of feelings etc?

Was diagnosed with ADHD 3 years ago, but I’ve had this since forever where I absolutely obsess over a musical project and after some time after I deplete the dopamine it’s over. Also, at the moment the obsessions are the new Across the Spider-Verse Original Score and Metro Boomin Soundtrack. I feel like the two make me feel the way I feel because of their ties to the movie and they somehow remind me of particular scenes from it and how I actually felt during them. The same happened with Everything Everywhere All At Once, where I was obsessed with the OST for some time because listening was like going back to the cinema seat and watching that particular part again but in my mind, with my feelings. This is all so confusing, tough to explain but very interesting to talk about.

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