This is at least in part conditioning: singing teachers always teach you to think “down” as you sing higher, because the thing you instinctively do when you think “higher” is wrong.
Also, (or so I’ve heard) the ancient Greeks used “high” and “low” backwards (at least when writing their music down) because they thought of it in terms of taller and shorter strings on a harp, where the taller strings are lower notes.
This is at least in part conditioning: singing teachers always teach you to think “down” as you sing higher, because the thing you instinctively do when you think “higher” is wrong.
Also, (or so I’ve heard) the ancient Greeks used “high” and “low” backwards (at least when writing their music down) because they thought of it in terms of taller and shorter strings on a harp, where the taller strings are lower notes.