When your playlist is
playing at the working time, you might see that your heart rate will increase.
Your pupils will dilate. Your body temperature will rise. Blood will redirect
to your legs. Your cerebellum—mission control for body movement—will become more
active. Your brain will flush with dopamine and a tingly chill whisks down your
back.
They saw that about
50 percent of people get chills when listening to music. One Research shows
that’s because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, it can
encourage dopamine to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain activated by
addiction, reward, and motivation of one person. Music is seemed to affect our
brains the same way that gambling, sex, and potato chips do.
Strangely, those
dopamine levels could peak several seconds before the particular moment of the
song. That’s because your brain is originally a good listener—it can constantly
predict what’s going to happen next.
But music is still
tricky. It can be unpredictable, teasing our brains and keeping those dopamine
triggers guessing. And that’s reason why the chills may come in anytime you
lose control your brain. Because when you hear that long awaited chord, the
striatum sighs with dopamine-soaked satisfaction and—BAM—you get the chills.
But there are some
competing theories. Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp has discovered that sad music
triggers chills more often than happy music naturally. He argues that a
melancholy tune activates an ancient, chill-inducing mechanism - a distress
response our ancestors felt when separated from family. When a ballad makes us
feel wistful or nostalgic, that evolutionary design kicks into gear.
You can feel chills
from any genre, whether it’s tango, Mozart, Madonna, or techno. Goosebumps most
often occur when something unexpected happens: A new instrument enters, the
form shifts, and the volume suddenly dims. It’s all about the element of
surprise. And if you like any song specially, you can save it on your phone
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Well, the most
powerful chills may occur when you know what’s coming next. When our
expectations are being met, the nucleus accumbens becomes more active. This
ties back to that dopamine-inducing guessing game our brain likes to play. As a
result, being familiar can enhance the thrill of the chill. (Perhaps that’s why
90 percent of musicians report feeling chills.)
Your personality
matters, too. Scientists at UNC Greensboro found that people who are more open
to new experiences are more likely to feel a quiver down their spine.
(Possibly, because opening individuals are more likely to play instruments.)
Meanwhile, researchers in Germany found that people who felt chills were less
likely to be thrill seekers, but were more reward-driven.
