It would be nice for your chameleon to be higher than you when you are standing next to the cage but my cage is about eye level with the stand it is on and it never has seemed to bother my chameleon. I guess it depends on your cham. If he is hiding from you and seems stressed when you come up to the cage, then mabye I would think of raising it higher than you are. I mean basically they like being high up, so the higher the better obviously!