This video was actually posted online in 2011, but it has only gone viral recently, accumulating over 600,000 hits over the past week.  

Speaking of ‘hits,’ the video by Zach Curd is actually focused on precisely that. Slaps in the face. He asked his wife to wake him with a slap across the face for two weeks and record the results. 

Now, Slapped Awake is covered on InQuisitir, Guyism, and NowMSN