Starting last night I noticed this behavior:
All of the lights on the console and cc panel work just fine when the headlamps are switched on. Last night I turned the headlights off as I was pulling into a spot. My foot remained depressing the brake as I did so, and I noticed that some of the backlights on the console and center panel started flickering rapidly. The button for the rear dome light, the headrest-drop button and another button between them (can't remember which) flicker, and all the lights on the shifter and behind the window controls flicker ... just fluttering on and off. When I release the brake, they all go dark, as they should be. When I turn the headlamp switch on (brakes depressed or not), all the lights come on, as they should. What's the connection between the brake and the center lights? Is there a ground somewhere that's failing? I understand little about electrical function, so I'm having a hard time hypthesizing as to what may be going on. Again, everything is normal when I'm not pressing the brake pedal down. Lights work perfectly when the switch is on. Only bad combination is lights off + brake depressed.

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