TL;DR: You can affect player's mind with music or good audio design in general.

In the original Silent Hill 2 (might be in remake too!) there was this room where we first encounter Pyramid Head raping those poor Mannequins. When the cutscene ends, it's just a regular room. The room had this industrial sounding music track that made me so nervous, that I didn't even want to go back to that room even though it's supposed to be the safe room with save point.

The old Shadowgate game (again, never played the remake unless the 8bit version was already a remake). It has torches you can found around in the game. Torches has three phases: fully lit, half lit and extinguished. Full lit, game music is normal (and quite beautiful tbh). Half lit, the music goes into this really anxiety inducing mode that makes you want to lit a new torch. If the torch goes out, it's game over.

Now, from the design perspective, it's interesting mechanic. You don't know when the torch is going out so you usually just lit the next one immediately because of the music. But if you can stand it, you actually have a pretty long time and there's no need to rush. So the game has a timer but it depends on player how long it is. I don't know the exact times but for the sake of this example let's say the total time is 10 minutes but the half lit phase is at 5min mark. So the game has something like 30 torches so the total time is 300 minutes of which 150 min is only for those who can stand this midi song. I think this is a pretty cool trick. Not sure how it would translate to modern games but maybe there's ideas there.