After downloading Lion and restarting my harddrive was wiped?

I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen but after restarting it came up with a weird screen that had some startup icons like recover time machine and reinstall lion
None of my stuff is on my computer anymore and the screen doesn't have a dock, I'm not sure what to do and I'm scared everything on my computer is completely gone. The only things I am able to do is "Select Macintosh HD to start up your computer" and "Restart"
If I restart what will happen? I'm scared to touch anything. I talked with a friend who downloaded Lion and he said this didn't happen for him. My computer is up to the requirements stated on the Lion page but I didn't refer to it before installing.
I'm not very good with computers either so this might just be something that happens that I didn't know how to deal with

Hi PG1892,
If your Mac is starting up to a white or grey screen after upgrading to Yosemite, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
Regards,
- Brenden

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