What is the meaning of a dream about witnessing the killing of a black bat in a crowded theater?

I had a vivid dream that I was seated in the front row of a crowed movie theater and a black bat was flying about circling high and low-many of the people in the theatre were terrorized, including me, and the bat seemed scared and bewildered. I sensed the bat may have been female. Several male attendants who worked in the theater swatted it to the ground & bludgeoned it, but the bat was not dying easily. Though badly injured, at one point, it got back up and flew right by my row, at eye level. For whatever reason, I felt that the attendants were trying to keep it away from me, in particular. It was a gruesome scene. I can't remember if it died or not before I woke up. I was deeply scared and affected, even after I woke up. What is the meaning of the dream?