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Are things like huge drops of sweat or flashes of light in anime and manga diegetic in any possible way?

So I'm used to the fact that symbolic things like huge drops of sweat, huge aneurystic veins, etc. are more or less abstract exaggerations of intense emotions rather than literal drops of sweat or veins. But now I'm drawing a character with a big drop of sweat looking at themself in a mirror, and I'm not sure what to do. If the drop of sweat is non-diegetic and purely symbolic, it doesn't make sense that it gets reflected in the mirror, because reflection would imply that that drop of sweat is literal, physical, and exists in the world (aka, diegetic). So is there any cases where an anime/manga character having their sweat reflected in a mirror as if it were diegetic?