is it a kind of dream?

Hee! I'll bet it was one of those presents your mom gives you that you can't stand, but promised to use someday. He could finally write home: "Dear mum, thanks again for the vest, here's a picture of me wearing it in Lanzarote." In fact, I'd wager that's the reason the Doctor always dresses so oddly. Mum wants pictures of him in his Christmas present. Think pink bunny Ralphie in "A Christmas Story." Okay, gonna stop the weird rambling now.