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As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBluePlanet than fulfill his peacetime obligations to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...? Exactly like the commoners who, faced with an armed gunship sent to take Twelve into custody, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming wouldn't get out of its way]].

[[WMG: Everything that happened between [[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas "Last Christmas"]] and the final scene of this episode was a dream]]
"Last Christmas" has a TheEndOrIsIt ending, implying that the Doctor and Clara never woke up from the dream created by the Dream Crabs. If the Dream Crabs can make them believe they did wake up, and they continue their lives as usual, they would not suspect that they're still inside the dream. Hence the Dream Crabs make the Doctor and Clara dream of further adventures and shenanigans while they continue consuming their minds. This would help to explain the inconsistencies and weirdness of the season, such as Davros's inexplicable survival of the events of "Journey's End", the ridiculously (even for ''Doctor Who'') unscientific nature of the monsters in "Sleep No More", or the idea that the end of the universe is only within 4 or 5 billions from the present day, even though "Utopia" established it will take trillions of years for the universe to end.

Presumably, it takes much longer for the Dream Crabs to consume a Time Lord mind than a human mind, the former being much more complex. So Clara's mind is eaten first, and "Face the Raven" is a dream that reflects this happening. When the Quantum Shade kills Clara in the dream, that's when her mind is completely consumed and she dies in real life. Subconsiously, the Doctor realises what has happened and that the Dream Crabs have killed Clara, but his conscious mind doesn't want to admit this, so within the dream world he creates a ridiculously complex fantasy where he beats the odds and rescues Clara. But his subconscious keeps telling him that he has to accept Clara's death and wake up from the dream before he too is consumed by the Crabs. So he subconsciously alters the dream in a way that makes him forget Clara while she still supposedly lives, after which he doesn't need the fantasy to feed his denial over Clara's death, and he can finally get rid of the Dream Crab possessing him and wake up in the real world. However, because he reprogrammed the dream in this way, when he wakes up he doesn't realise it was a dream and keeps on believing the events of series 9 were real.

When the Doctor wakes up in the desert with the [=TARDIS=] materialising next to him, that's the moment he actually wakes up from the dream. As for the graffiti on the [=TARDIS=], Riggsy did really create it, but as a memorial the Clara who was found dead in her apartment, consumed by the Dream Crab. The post-credits scene in "Face the Raven" of him painting the [=TARDIS=] did actually take place in the real world, not within the dream. It's placement after the credits is meant to imply that it's separate from the rest of the episode, which was all a dream.

Presumably, it takes much longer for the Dream Crabs to consume a Time Lord mind than a human mind, the former being much more complex. So Clara's mind is eaten first, and "Face the Raven" is a dream that reflects this happening. When the Quantum Shade kills Clara in the dream, that's when her mind is completely consumed and she dies in real life. Subconsiously, the Doctor realises what has happened and that Dream Crabs have killed Clara, but his conscious mind doesn't want to admit this, so within the dream world he creates a ridiculously complex fantasy where he beats the odds and rescues Clara. But his subconscious keeps telling him that he has to accept Clara's death and wake up from the dream before he too is consumed by the Crabs. So he subconsciously alters the dream in a way that makes him forget Clara while she still supposedly lives, after which he doesn't need the fantasy to feed his denial over Clara's death, and he can finally get rid of the Dream Crab possessing him and wake up in the real world. However, in order to not dig in to his memories and realise it was all a dream and that Clara was actually consumed by a Dream Crab, he has to keep on believing everything in series 9 really did happen, so that's what his subconscious does to his conscious mind.

After Clara and she part company, Ashildr will return to long-abandoned Gallifrey to resume watching all of reality shut down, but will pick up distant signals indicating there are still some human refugees out there within the dying universe. Much as she'd founded refuges for lepers in medieval times and for aliens-in-hiding in the 21st century, she'll use the same Time Lord tech that'd broadcast "Doctor who?" throughout time and space to signal every part of the failing future universe, calling the scattered survivors to come to "Utopia" - which is actually Gallifrey itself - from which point she'll send them back in time to past eras where they can blend in and start new lives. Had the Master not diverted Yana's ship from heeding the beacon, redirecting it to a place where he could start transforming its occupants into Toclafane, ''he'd'' have been the last Time Lord to set foot on their home planet, not the Doctor.

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBluePlanet than fulfill his peacetime obligations to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...? Exactly like the commoners who, faced with an armed gunship sent to take Twelve into custody, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming wouldn't get out of its way]].

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBluePlanet than fulfill his peacetime obligations to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...? Exactly like the commoners who, faced with an armed gunship sent to take Twelve into custody, [[MomentOfHeartwarming wouldn't get out of its way]].

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBluePlanet than fulfill his peacetime obligations to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...? Exactly like the commoners who, faced with an armed gunship, [[MomentOfHeartwarming wouldn't get out of its way]].

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBluePlanet than fulfill his peacetime obligations to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...? Exactly like the commoners who, faced with an armed gunship, wouldn't get out of its way.

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantBlueGreenPlanet than fulfill his peacetime responsibilities to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...?

As for how the drylanders knew what Earthly clothing ''looked'' like, it's a safe bet that every time the Doctor'd left Gallifrey, his political enemies in the High Council immediately flooded the planet with anti-Doctor propaganda, depicting him as an ingrate who'd rather hang around with barbaric backwater aliens from some InsignificantLittleBlueGreenPlanet than fulfill his peacetime responsibilities to his own people. Guess how those "barbaric backwater aliens" would be dressed in the propaganda...?

Rather, it's a deliberate, unspoken indication that, even before Twelve arrives in person, ''the Doctor is their hero''. Long before the Time War, he'd been an iconoclastic critic of Gallifrey's social inequalities, thumbing his nose at the pretensions of the elite by throwing the proffered Presidency back in the High Council's faces, and openly working with Shobogans and other Outsiders. The Time War further reinforced the Doctor's "rebellious hero" image, selflessly shielding Gallifrey's civilian population from Daleks, while shaming its establishment by holding back the invaders ''much'' more effectively than the Council's own hidebound forces could. Although denied a political voice, the inhabitants of the drylands began to express their quiet support for the Doctor's social rebelliousness symbolically, by dressing in the manner of the Earth natives he'd flagrantly abandoned the Time Lords' life of privilege to protect and dwell among.

Rather, it's a deliberate, unspoken indication that, even before Twelve arrives in person, ''the Doctor is their hero''. Long before the Time War, he'd been an iconoclastic critic of Gallifrey's social inequalities, thumbing his nose at the pretensions of the elite by throwing the proffered Presidency back in the High Council's faces, and openly working with Shobogans and other Outsiders. The Time War further reinforced the Doctor's "rebellious hero" image, selflessly shielding Gallifrey's civilian population from Daleks, while shaming its establishment by holding back the invaders ''much'' more effectively than the Council's own hidebound forces could. Although denied a political voice, the inhabitants of the drylands began to express their quiet support for the Doctor's social rebelliousness symbolically, by dressing in the manner of the Earth natives he'd flagrantly abandoned the Time Lords' life of privilege to protect and dwell among./

The hearts broken were [[NoFourthWall on the other side of the fourth wall]]. The Doctor has healed his heart, and learn to accept loss, at the cost of the Doctor/Clara ship sailing forever. They can never be back together, and the character of Clara has left the show supposedly forever (it's a confirmed sendoff). The Hybrid also no longer exists, due to the memory wipe. The Hybrid is confirmed by WordOfGod to be the Doctor/Clara pairing, which was set up by Missy, who was fully aware of the Doctor's loss issues, and intended for all this to happen. Even if a reunion occurs, the most that can he hoped for is a brief one or a cameo; the so-called "glory years" of the Doctor and Clara are over forever.