I've tried bed after bed -- in inns and Mages Guilds -- and I keep dreaming about that mysterious stranger. And I have all these vampire things added. I finally had to level up and go to bed in order to complete the Bravil mages recommendation. I really don't want to go through a lenfthy mission to un-vampire myself. Any thoughts or advice?

If you have the Deepscorn Hollow DLC House you can just use an altar in the house and change back to human again.

There is a quest.

A quest to what -- get rid of my vampirism? I was hoping not to have to go t hrough that.

You either do the quest or use the add-on.