Where Are The Best Holiday Lights In Barnstable

Seasonal & Holidays

Where Are The Best Holiday Lights In Barnstable Help Patch find the best holiday lights this season. Here's how.

Email and let us know the address of the best lights in your town. (Shutterstock)

ACROSS AMERICA — For many of us, taking in our neighbors’ outdoor holiday lighting displays and other decorative touches is as much a part of the season as exchanging gifts and singing Christmas carols.

Patch and T-Mobile are partnering to help you compile a list of lights around Cape Cod that deserve a drive-by.

There’s a good reason twinkling holiday lights and colorful displays make us feel good, according to mental health experts.

“It does create that neurological shift that can produce happiness ,” Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York’s Adelphi University, told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out ... signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it’s pleasing or not.”

Decorating for the holidays “will spike dopamine , a feel-good hormone,” she said. “For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence. It’s a time of joy.”

So who has the best light displays on Cape Cod? Email and let us know the address. Also please send a photo (that you took yourself) to appear in our holiday roundup!

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