Downloads missing from dock

Both the downloads icon and the documents icon are missing from the dock. I try to drag them from Finder and nothing happens. Where they should be there are very light grey bars. This sounds odd, but I think they got pulled below the dock. Sometime they appear in grey behind the dock but cannot be opened by clicking on them. How do I get them back.

(this is not going to solve it but it will help us see what you're saying. can you hit shift+cmd+4 at the same time, the cursor will become crosshairs. now hit space bar. the cursor should become a camera. place this camera on the dock, the dock should be highlighted when doing this, and click the mouse.
A picture will be saved on your dock, upload that picture here for us to see.
if you have your dock hidden this will not work, you'll need to right clickt he track where it separates your applications with the trash icon and then right click that go to dock preferences and then uncheck automatically hide and show dock. you can also access these settings in system preferences>dock
should look something like this (I customized my dock so it won't look exactly like this but it will isolate your dock

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