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Color is a continuous spectrum.  We’ve just chosen to name some specific points along the way.
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Just because our eyes do not have the receptors to see them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist or that our brain can’t interpret them. Our brain just can’t get the signals because our eyes don’t detect them. For instance, dragonflies can detect more vision pigments than humans. I’m pretty sure the human brain could process them if our eyes had the ability to see them That means, technically, you could imagine colors you’ve never seen. >

That's a nice thought, I wonder if within the next 100years something could be developed to allow us to 'see' more of the spectrum or to distinguish between colours more capably prehaps helping those with colour blindness. >

You can mix impossible colors by having different colors for each eye. It's possible to "see" yellowish blue by having one eye receive blue light and the other receive yellow. The colors mix in your brain creating a signal other than green. >

Pretty sure I've seen some brand new colors while tripping on mushrooms >

Technically, there are infinite colors, and we can't see most of them
We could potentialy see them with eye technology or evolution >

Seems legit. Also as far as any one of us is concerned actually, there will always be new colours. Only incrementally different but still.. >

The colors technically aren't "new", we just haven't physically seen them >

People thousands of years ago had a different perception of colour(s). For example, Greeks didn't see Blue as a separate colour but as a shade. >

Maybe if our eyes evolve where we can perceive X-rays or other unseeable frequencies as colors that could happen.