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I've seen losing sequences happen to quite a few newer people. Part of the issue is that many of the ways that you might start a sequence leads to the sequence name being the same as the name of your media, so if you're trying to find something by name it's going to be hidden amongst your footage. The best thing to do is to rename the sequence to something more obvious immediately upon creation and to move it into its own Sequences Bin (keep your footage in its own folder in your project as well.) This is generally where some organization is helpful, and it's usually ignored by new and first-time users. Folders inside your Premiere project and on your hard drives. I've even seen people import a clip of 'Name', create a sequence of 'Name' and then export their sequence to the same hard drive folder and actually overwrite the original media they were working with. Folders and naming is important.
So, many times, the sequence is simply lost right in front of people in their Project Panel. I personally prefer to keep things in list mode because it makes the icons that tell you what each type of media is quite obvious. I'll post a pic as an example.
You can see the symbol for sequences at the top, the symbol for video & audio in the middle, and an audio file at the bottom, and a bunch of other Bins in between.
If you're in icon view, be on the lookout for this symbol:
One other thing you can do if you've lost the sequence in the Project is search for it in the search bar. If you simply search for "sequence," it will pull up media of that type:
Hopefully some of this is helpful to you.
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