• One reason why music has become so intertwined with how we express and comfort ourselves is because listening to music releases dopamine in the brain.
• Music awakens our memory. When we can identify pieces of music, we can bring back memories associated with the music.
• Music can also have an emotional impact. Even if you identify a short piece of music, you have a musical imagery experience that triggers the memory of the whole piece of music and its associated memories.

Many of us can hear music in our minds, named musical or auditory imagery.

It can happen voluntarily, such as thinking about a song, or it can happen involuntarily - when the song pops into your mind without you trying to recall any music, called an earworm. About 90% of people have an ear...