Skyrim – HundoDex

Sleepwalking Into A Nightmare

Follow a missing woman into her own nightmares, face what haunts her, and stand before Vaermina.

  • Questline: New Quests – Sleepwalking into a Nightmare
  • Given by: Ralforn
  • Needs level 15
  • Reward: A unique ring, with other rewards depending on the ending
  • Where: The Rift

How to start

Talk to Ralforn at the Green-tip cabin, northeast of Ivarstead. His wife has not come home.

Objectives

  • Find Gretska.
  • Search for clues at Gretska's fishing spot, her archery target, along the path and in her knapsack.
  • Read Gretska's journal and tell Ralforn.
  • Find the place from Gretska's nightmare.
  • Try to wake Gretska, then work out how.
  • Look into the cave.
  • Work out how to sleep in the Awakening Chambers.
  • Take the Omens of Anguish, Self-Doubt and Bereavement.
  • Overcome the Nightmare of Bereavement and kill the werewolf.
  • Overcome the Nightmare of Anguish and tell Gretska's mother you fixed the vase.
  • Overcome the Nightmare of Self-Doubt.
  • Sleep on the stone bed.
  • Defeat the Lotus.
  • Talk to the statue.
  • Refuse Vaermina's offer – or accept it.
  • Talk to Gretska.
  • Talk to Ralforn.

Can be missed

The Nexus page says there are several endings with different rewards, so a late choice may cost you a reward. Some items are not quest rewards and must be found by exploring.

Good to know

There is more than one ending, each with its own reward.