Why does music cause goosebumps?

About 50 percent of people get chills when listening to music. Research shows that's because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain activated by addiction, reward, and motivation. read more

Research shows that’s because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain activated by addiction, reward, and motivation. Music, it seems, may affect our brains the same way that sex, gambling, and potato chips do. read more

But science is still trying to catch up with why this thrill results in goosebumps in the first place. Advertisement Some scientists have suggested that goosebumps are an evolutionary holdover from our early (hairier) ancestors, who kept themselves warm through an endothermic layer of heat they retained immediately beneath the hairs of their skin. read more

Most of the time music causes Goosebumps when you start relating it to your existing life or an event of your life with it. When you start feeling it or thinking that this may happen with you in your future as most of us are excited or scared about our future. read more