This is an unfortunate effect of how the experimental multithreaded solver works. If you turn this setting off in the Project Settings > Physics2D you won’t get this common sleep state. A body will wake if you make certain modifications to its state but it’ll also automatically do this when the contact island its part of wakes. A contact island is a set of bodies that either directly or indirectly are solved together because they are connected via contacts. The MT solver solves a contact island on a threaded job but unfortunately some contact islands are very small and can have just a single body. Running this on a separate job would be expensive so what happens is that these contact islands get merged.

There are strategies to solve this issue and maintain the sleep state, however, it should be noted that sleep state should be an internal performance control only. Relying on it for game behaviour can be very fragile and should be avoided. For instance, a body can wake by having one of its colliders come near another collider (if their axis-aligned bounding boxes overlap) and not necessarily by touching.