Stuck in Clean Slate, no other applications or dock available

So to tell all that happened. I was working on the computer and was having a hard time downloading a purchase on Itunes. It kept saying that disk was full etc. I asked to restart my computer (not shut down). When I did this it took forever to start back up as it had the bar across the bottom the screen like it was updating something (not sure what). When I got to the log in user, I logged in as normal.
I then got a pop up that said a program I was using was having a problem and if I like to restart new or fresh (something to that wording). My choices were cancle or ok. I hit ok, thinking that it had to do with itunes.
I then got a grey screen which opened to Clean Slate. It took awhile but I got out of clean slate. Now there is no Doc availble with my applications. Itunes won't open. In the upper right hand corner all that shows are the clean slate app. a bowler hat and something else that refers to windows. There is no date and time and doesn't show battery power icon or wifi.
In the left hand corner is the apple icon, and if I go to Recent items it shows everything I had before the restart. There is no dock at the bottom.
I went to prefrences and tried to set up everything how it was, but nothing will save. It shows internet connectivity but won't open a page (such as gmail) when I am on an internet browser.
I feel like I am in some other start up or something. Did I lose everything. What do I do?

The bar across the bottom, or near the bottom, of the screen when booting means the system is booting into Safe Mode.
It would seem your hard drive is Over Filled and you need to free up some space by either moving files to an external drive or just Deleting some, many.
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