I noticed the same thing recently and have been trying to pay attention to how it works. Meditation increasing agency is something I've noticed as well.

The other useful thing I've discovered is that if I take the daily review that I used to do at the end of the day ("how did today go? what went well? what could have gone better?") and write things down as they come to me during the day--and try to think of things to write down as stuff is happening--this seems to push me more towards agency-mode and waking-up. (Unfortunately it's often inconvenient to take things and type them out in the moment. I'm working on streamlining this.)