Vision: Looking at a tomato: your love for someone is growing stronger, and your chances are improving! Eating tomatoes: you are about to have an affair, but you are taking a risk—it could have disastrous consequences.
See also: Vegetables, the chapter“Colors in Dreams/1
Depth Psychology: The tomato is a symbol of mature love or passion.
If you are ashamed of something, do you turn red like a tomato? [1]
If you dream of a green or an unripe tomato, then this signifies that your passion and romantic feelings are budding or just beginning to unfold and they require patience, and tender loving care.
If you dream of a tomato being thrown at you, then you are venting your fears of being publicly humiliated or embarrassed.
The tomato is a symbol of fertility. As a nightshade plant, it also has something scary about it. According to Rudolf Steiner, the tomato is the expression of eroticism and passion. [3]
A canned tomato is an incarcerated female [6]