gator in the water

Date: 1/12/2017

I appear to be swimming, with my boyfriend, down a river. Shortly into the swim, a gator-about 5ft, begins to swim toward us. I begin to ask my boyfriend in a panic what we should do, how to handle it and where to go. He brushes it off and says we are fine as the gator is now infront of us. As I now begin to splash, push, kick and fight this gator trying to get away, I yell for my boyfriend. I then look over and see my boyfriend is on the bank and I'm stuck fighting the gator. I begin yelling for him to come back to help which he turns to look at me, appears to be coming back for me then I wake up.