Weird floating, blurry screen

I had turned my computer off over the holidays and booted it up when I returned and the screen is kind of blurry. But worse is the screen seems too big for the monitor. As I move the mouse the screen moves with it. The dock at the bottom of my screen goes away if I move the mouse to the top of my screen and conversely the top menu bar goes away if I move the mouse to the bottom. I tried checking the screen settings in System preferences but that doesn't help.
Please help.
Thanks in advance!
Leslie

Thank you!!! Thank you!! That was so weird. Totally fixed it. Not sure how that got set there but thank you!
Leslie

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