Desktop is black and dock disappeared. I have to use spotlight search to open apps. How do i fix this?

My desktop is black and the dock is not on my screen. I have to use the spotlight search to open apps. When i log in guest user everything works fine. It's only my account. How can i fix this?

open spotlight and type the name of any folder. Select it. A finder window will open. Basically you just need a finder window. right click on the title of the window. You will get a dropdown menu. Select the name of your hard disk ( most probably "Macintosh HD") now you will see a folder named system alongside applications, users, library, etc. click on the system folder. Then click on the library folder which is the only folder that appears once you get inside system folder.
now scroll down and find CoreServices folder. Open it and then find dock.app and open it.

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