SaraBee – The first important statement here is that you are staying in an old castle type place. Also there are people you feel you don’t know and yet you belong there.
This describes the fact that your body – the house – has a long, long history. If in your mind you trace yourself back to the beginning of you, you probably think of conception. But that wasn’t the beginning of this body. It is traceable back to the primordial slime of the first single celled creatures. Those cells are from an unbroken line of generation. And even that is not really the beginning.
So I feel the dream is describing what I call the past places of your dwelling – your past dwelling places – with lots of rooms. The reason you can’t remember is that this body has developed a local recent memory. The long memory is in your Core self, which is only usually available when you dig deep enough into your self. And I feel the recent death and trouble has produced this dream where you begin to touch the memory of your Core self.
Why this is happening is because it is showing you that you are much bigger, with far more to you than you presently realise. To become bigger is to rise above present difficulties because of a wider and more mature awareness. But that will take attention and work.
The jeans are usually about mixture of rough and ready clothing – attitudes – that can also be stylish and modern. They are choices you can make, directions you could take, abilities you have that are latent.
Of course people do not take any notice, nearly everyone is hypnotised by the need to be outwardly successful, and to follow the crowd, forgetting their own amazing past and all the gifts it holds.
If you would like to explore something of that promise, see
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-in-your-dream/And thanks for telling me the dream in so much detail, with your present life situation.
Tony