Macbook air 11 won't accept login password

Have not changed anything and all of a sudden today when I put in my password the login screen won't do anything. When this happened the computer had been "asleep" and I thought it was just getting stuck trying to wake up. After a few failed tries I finally just turned it off and waited about 10 minutes. Turned it back on and once it booted up and went to the login screen I typed in my password and it's still doing the same thing. The bar where you type in your password goes blue, I type in the password again, hit return, and it goes back to blue. I can login as a guest, but that's not much help since I have no access to my files as a guest. What's going on???

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Never had problem with this password before it's the same password I use to login to my guest account.
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