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This is just a guess, but an educated one.
To me, this set of symptoms sounds like you have a short in the brake light circuit that causes havoc when it gets energized and causes a current drop.
I would check for:
1) The wrong bulb in a brake light socket
2) A short in the brake lights wiring harness
3) Problems inside the "bulb monitor computer" or whatever you call that little box that contains all the circuitry that monitor for bad bulbs. These things have metal strips used as resistors. I have seen them burn up and then you have metal pieces kicking around inside the box with all the circuitry.
4) A problem with the brake light switch
5) A wiring problem behind the cluster such as a bad ground or cracked trace on the circuit board.
Good luck.
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