are colours real or are our minds just making them up?

Question: are colours real or are our minds just making them up?
- Keywords:
- Royal Society of Chemistry: Find out more on:
  
  body
  
  colour
  
  vision
Asked by rachelbuckley1000 to Roy, Rowena on 13 Mar 2014.
- Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 13 Mar 2014:
  
  Colours are the way our brains interpret the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. There are more electromagnetic waves than we can see, e.g. infrared, but we see a small band s colours. We’re not making colours up, but they are merely a picture our brain uses tpbunderstand what’s happening!

Question: are colours real or are our minds just making them up?